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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80697"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:53:02.236Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-28T12:08:17.218Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80697"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80697.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80697"
title: "erofs: ensure valid f_path for page cache sharing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerofs: ensure valid f_path for page cache sharing\n\nPreviously, backing files for page cache sharing were set up with\nf_path left as NULL (only f_inode was valid).  It worked, but a recent\nmincore fix relies on f_path.mnt and crashes (found by \"erofs/028\" on\n7.2-rc4):\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 675528 Comm: fincore Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4-00002-g[]-dirty #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.16.0-4.al8 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:__do_sys_mincore+0xc0/0x2c0\n ...\n\nSpecify valid paths using valid disconnected dentries together with\nerofs_ishare_mnt instead of leaving f_path empty, so they are more\nlike real backing files in a pseudo filesystem and standard\nbacking_file_open() can be used directly."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5ef3208e3be50aa08b4e7a2832f34e16d42c08b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3879657c4ffd81b9a42cf575fc6cb60201032587"},{"version":"5ef3208e3be50aa08b4e7a2832f34e16d42c08b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96b2dbbe58a1ea5df8d29c2fe24b5f04715f4443"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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