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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72160" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:28.943Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:59.633Z" 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-2026-72160" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72160.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72160" title: "ocfs2: reject dinodes with non-canonical i_mode type" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: reject dinodes with non-canonical i_mode type\n\nPatch series \"ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata\", v2.\n\nThis series adds three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so\nmalformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies\nthem into the in-core inode.\n\nThe checks cover:\n\n - i_mode values whose type bits do not name a canonical POSIX file\n type;\n - non-device dinodes whose id1.dev1.i_rdev field is non-zero; and\n - non-inline dinodes that claim non-zero i_size while i_clusters is\n zero, covering directories unconditionally and regular files on\n non-sparse volumes.\n\nThe normal read path reports these through ocfs2_error(), matching the\nexisting suballoc-slot, inline-data, chain-list, and refcount checks. The\nonline filecheck path uses the same structural predicates but keeps its\nown reporting contract, returning OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead\nof calling ocfs2_error().\n\n\nThis patch (of 3):\n\nocfs2_validate_inode_block() currently accepts any non-zero i_mode value. \nocfs2_populate_inode() then copies that mode verbatim into inode-\u003ei_mode\nand dispatches on i_mode & S_IFMT to the file/dir/symlink/special_file\niops; an unrecognised type falls through to ocfs2_special_file_iops and\ninit_special_inode().\n\nReject dinodes whose type bits do not name one of the seven canonical\nPOSIX file types. Use fs_umode_to_ftype(), the same generic file-type\nconversion helper OCFS2 already uses for directory entries, so the\naccepted inode type set matches the kernel file-type vocabulary instead of\nopen-coding a local switch.\n\nApply the same structural check to the online filecheck read path. \nfilecheck keeps its own error namespace, so it reports malformed i_mode\nthrough the filecheck logger and OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead of\ncalling ocfs2_error(), but it must not allow a malformed dinode to proceed\ninto ocfs2_populate_inode()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e3aac33988ef4e4170141db8e995693ea38357c"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb024ea29f6cb1f01745e5f2e31646f3acb9aa6f"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"157d31ef45038d89cd19620105e082d43c8e41e0"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5b555bcabbb0aff8745ad181768eaf9d964c1ee"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82afe13558354390d8a592a5334d5f4fd72c0e5c"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4db3b6a2a8ecf2a89d26a4090ace4072c6fad050"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b858f2d57cfc9d57ce61b86051d603dc0ebccd40"},{"version":"b657c95c11088d77fc1bfc9c84d940f778bf9d12","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5366a017099c6a3c443be908a05f26fd72af12a1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.29","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.29"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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