CVE-2026-43179
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's EROFS filesystem. An attacker could provide a specially crafted EROFS image with metadata compression enabled. This could trigger incorrect early returns within the kernel, leading to folio reference leaks. While this issue does not cause system crashes or other severe problems, it can result in a resource leak.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
An adversary that can cause a resource counter to become inaccurate may be able to create situations where resources are not accounted for and not released, thus causing resources to become scarce for future needs.
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
An adversary that can cause a resource counter to become inaccurate may be able to force an error that causes the product to crash or exit out of its current operation.
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