Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-98448
Go to dashboardWhen changing ownership of the XFS orphanage directory fails, the kernel keeps an extra reference to that directory inode that is never released. The sources describe a reference leak and do not state a direct way for an attacker to run code or read data.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
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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.
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