CVE record · CVE-2026-97546

xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0020 · 9th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 5442f0c56445618544a801fb4dae35aed87a1aaa git
  • affected b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 08754ebfa5c28e8d57316b1bd7a5a921a5e2e762 git
  • affected b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before a455c83ce5dc1a2da33b1b84253d298372a8dfbd git
  • affected b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 9f84792b40d0c96833341602144574bf0bd14a6a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.10
  • unaffected before 6.10 semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97546
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0020, the 9th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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