# 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-2026-63817"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:16.441Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:51:24.577Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-63817"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63817.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63817"
title: "f2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled\n\nF2FS_COMPRESS_INO() uses NM_I(sbi)-\u003emax_nid as the synthetic inode\nnumber for the compressed page cache inode. That inode only exists when\nthe compress_cache mount option is enabled.\n\nWhen compress_cache is disabled, max_nid is outside the valid inode\nrange. A corrupted directory entry that points to ino == max_nid should\ntherefore be rejected by f2fs_check_nid_range(). However, is_meta_ino()\ncurrently treats F2FS_COMPRESS_INO() as a meta inode unconditionally,\nso f2fs_iget() bypasses do_read_inode() and its nid range check, and\ninstantiates a fake internal inode instead.\n\nGate the compressed cache inode case on COMPRESS_CACHE, matching\nf2fs_init_compress_inode(). With compress_cache disabled, ino ==\nmax_nid now follows the normal inode path and is rejected as an\nout-of-range nid."
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