Bug 2492705 (CVE-2026-53168) - CVE-2026-53168 kernel: fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories
Summary: CVE-2026-53168 kernel: fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53168
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-26 10:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:01:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents.

For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as
kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have
direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit
WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data.

Reject FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE on anything other than
regular files with -EINVAL.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-26 10:47:54 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062551-CVE-2026-53168-7097@gregkh/T


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