CVE-2026-64040

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer. Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when vfs_mkdir() fails.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a220d1c312c66194f4a33dd52d1fba42bc2b341

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0940108d27c6995e02819ff832be11892f0b208b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-19

Updated: 2026-07-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00189