Vulnerabilities
- CVSS
- 5.5 Medium
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS
- 0.11%
- Risk score
- 0.8
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- Status
- Published
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings in wait_sb_inodes()
Above the while() loop in wait_sb_inodes(), we document that we must wait
for all pages under writeback for data integrity. Consequently, if a
mapping, like fuse, traditionally does not have data integrity semantics,
there is no need to wait at all; we can simply skip these inodes.
This restores fuse back to prior behavior where syncs are no-ops. This
fixes a user regression where if a system is running a faulty fuse server
that does not reply to issued write requests, this causes wait_sb_inodes()
to wait forever.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's writeback subsystem. The wait_sb_inodes() function waits for all pages under writeback, including those from FUSE filesystems that traditionally do not have data integrity semantics. If a faulty FUSE server fails to reply to write requests, sync operations can hang indefinitely, causing a denial of service.
Coverage 3
vulnerability
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel of Ubuntu. Some of these vulnerabilities allow for privilege escalation, data confidentiality breaches, and data integrity compromise. The vulnerabilities…
vulnerability
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel of Ubuntu. Some of these vulnerabilities allow for privilege escalation, data confidentiality breaches, and data integrity compromise. These vulnerabiliti…
threat-intel
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel of Ubuntu. Some of these vulnerabilities allow for privilege escalation, data confidentiality breaches, and denial of service attacks. The vulnerabilities…
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