CVE-2023-54119 inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotifyfreeingmark races with inotifyhandleinodeevent it can happen that inotifyhandleinodeevent sees that imark-wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace...

PT-2025-53196

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A condition exists in the Linux kernel where a race between inotify freeing mark and inotify handle inode event can lead to the reporting of an event with an invalid watch descriptor wd ...

kernel: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's inotify subsystem. When inotifyfreeingmark races with inotifyhandleinodeevent, the event handler may read imark-wd after it has been reset to -1. This causes an invalid watch descriptor value of -1 to be reported to userspace applications,...