Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-64040

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix error return when vfsmkdir fails When vfsmkdir fails, the error code is not...

CVE-2026-64040

CVE-2026-64040 affects the Linux kernel’s cachefiles path. The root cause is that when vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code was not extracted from the error pointer, causing mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0 and returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer. The public description...