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CVE-2026-98448xfs: release orphanage dir inode if chown fails
- —Not scoredno CVSS score yet
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: release orphanage dir inode if chown fails LOLLM points out that we leak the igrab'd reference to the orphanage directory inode if chowning it fails. Fix that.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.
Affected products
- affected 1e58a8ccf2597c9259a8e71a2bffac5e11e12ea0 – < 6b66b1a59df6c3f9b4ad9b39a32ca86170ade357
- affected 1e58a8ccf2597c9259a8e71a2bffac5e11e12ea0 – < 6a65a68097a1903988b256d5b367da7b0863a1d5
- affected 1e58a8ccf2597c9259a8e71a2bffac5e11e12ea0 – < f813aefd9e09c8cda38a71580b6a01552d97cade
- affected 1e58a8ccf2597c9259a8e71a2bffac5e11e12ea0 – < 1c32cdc986467eaffeedb6c5334852809555b82d
- affected 6.10
- unaffected < 6.10
- unaffected 6.12.112 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.55 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.9 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b66b1a59df6c3f9b4ad9b39a32ca86170ade357 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a65a68097a1903988b256d5b367da7b0863a1d5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f813aefd9e09c8cda38a71580b6a01552d97cade (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c32cdc986467eaffeedb6c5334852809555b82d (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-103688 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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