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

A vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel where the cachefiles component fails to extract the error code from the pointer returned by vfs_mkdir() upon failure. This oversight causes the system to reach mkdir_error with a return value of 0, resulting in the return of ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of ...