CVE-2026-45915
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CVE-2026-45915 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.5/10 on the CVSS scale. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Corrupted FAT images can leave a directory inode with an incorrect i_nlink (e.g. 2 even though subdirectories exist). EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Corrupted FAT images can leave a directory inode with an incorrect i_nlink (e.g. 2 even though subdirectories exist). rmdir then unconditionally calls drop_nlink(dir) and can drive i_nlink to 0, triggering the WARN_ON in drop_nlink(). Add a sanity check in vfat_rmdir() and msdos_rmdir(): only drop the parent link count when it is at least 3, otherwise report a filesystem error.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 2.6.19, < 5.10.252 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 5.11, < 5.15.202 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 5.16, < 6.1.165 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.6.128 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.7, < 6.12.75 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.13, < 6.18.14 |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.19, < 6.19.4 |
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