# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64185"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:41:07.340Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T15:41:07.340Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64185"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64185.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64185"
title: "sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure\n\nWhen sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files()\nfails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on\nthe group directory.  In the update path, kn was obtained via\nkernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed\nbefore this call.  Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the\ncaller did not create.\n\nOnly remove the directory if we created it ourselves.  On update failure\nthe directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside\ncreate_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry."
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