CVE-2026-97546

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them LOLLM noticed that xrep_dir_recover_data can spin forever if it encounters an unused dirent that claims to have length zero. Fix that, and prevent the same thing from happening with a zero-length entry.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a455c83ce5dc1a2da33b1b84253d298372a8dfbd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f84792b40d0c96833341602144574bf0bd14a6a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5442f0c56445618544a801fb4dae35aed87a1aaa

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08754ebfa5c28e8d57316b1bd7a5a921a5e2e762

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/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: 0.002