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GHSA-WGXF-CH55-CW7H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-24 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-24 15:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd

When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).

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CVE-2023-54119 (GCVE-0-2023-54119)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:55

Title

inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fb33166aed888769…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d65c97777e5b4a84…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ad86d8c12220de9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/145f54ea336b06cf4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3294998489d3983…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a48bacee05860c608…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c915d8f5918bea7c3…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < 8fb33166aed888769ea63d6af49515893f8a1f14 (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < 2d65c97777e5b4a845637800d5d7b648f5772106 (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < 17ad86d8c12220de97e80d88b5b4c934a40e1812 (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < 145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43 (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < fb3294998489d39835006240e9c6e6b2ac62022e (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < a48bacee05860c6089c3482bcdc80720b0ee5732 (git) Affected: 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 , < c915d8f5918bea7c3962b09b8884ca128bfd9b0c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.31 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.31 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.243 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.112 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.29 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.16 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.3 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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