CVE-2026-43179

medium Red Hat
Published: May 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's EROFS filesystem. An attacker could provide a specially crafted EROFS image with metadata compression enabled. This could trigger incorrect early returns within the kernel, leading to folio reference leaks. While this issue does not cause system crashes or other severe problems, it can result in a resource leak.

CWE

CWE-911

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 lore.kernel.org