# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45960"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:16.851Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:16.851Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45960"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45960.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45960"
title: "hfsplus: return error when node already exists in hfs_bnode_create"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: return error when node already exists in hfs_bnode_create\n\nWhen hfs_bnode_create() finds that a node is already hashed (which should\nnot happen in normal operation), it currently returns the existing node\nwithout incrementing its reference count. This causes a reference count\ninconsistency that leads to a kernel panic when the node is later freed\nin hfs_bnode_put():\n\n    kernel BUG at fs/hfsplus/bnode.c:676!\n    BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&node-\u003erefcnt))\n\nThis scenario can occur when hfs_bmap_alloc() attempts to allocate a node\nthat is already in use (e.g., when node 0's bitmap bit is incorrectly\nunset), or due to filesystem corruption.\n\nReturning an existing node from a create path is not normal operation.\n\nFix this by returning ERR_PTR(-EEXIST) instead of the node when it's\nalready hashed. This properly signals the error condition to callers,\nwhich already check for IS_ERR() return values."
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