CVE-2026-43168

Updated on 06 May 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix reflink preserve cleanup issue

commit c06c303832ec (“ocfs2: fix xattr array entry __counted_by error”) doesn’t handle all cases and the cleanup job for preserved xattr entries still has bug:

  • the ’last’ pointer should be shifted by one unit after cleanup an array entry.
  • current code logic doesn’t cleanup the first entry when xh_count is 1.

Note, commit c06c303832ec is also a bug fix for 0fe9b66c65f3.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+15 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix reflink preserve cleanup issue

commit c06c303832ec (“ocfs2: fix xattr array entry __counted_by error”) doesn’t handle all cases and the cleanup job for preserved xattr entries still has bug:

  • the ’last’ pointer should be shifted by one unit after cleanup an array entry.
  • current code logic doesn’t cleanup the first entry when xh_count is 1.

Note, commit c06c303832ec is also a bug fix for 0fe9b66c65f3.

Fixes