CVE-2026-46040

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's inotify subsystem. When the fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked function fails during the creation of a new watch, the system does not properly decrement the watch count. This oversight can lead to a watch count leak, where repeated failures exhaust the maximum user...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-46040

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails When fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails in inotifynewwatch, the error path calls inotifyremovefromidr but does not call decinotifywatches to undo the preceding...

CVE-2026-46040

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails When fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails in inotifynewwatch, the error path calls inotifyremovefromidr but does not call decinotifywatches to undo the preceding...

CVE-2026-46040 inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotify_add_inode_mark_locked() fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails When fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails in inotifynewwatch, the error path calls inotifyremovefromidr but does not call decinotifywatches to undo the preceding...

EUVD-2026-32421

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails When fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails in inotifynewwatch, the error path calls inotifyremovefromidr but does not call decinotifywatches to undo the preceding...

CVE-2026-46040

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails When fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails in inotifynewwatch, the error path calls inotifyremovefromidr but does not call decinotifywatches to undo the preceding...

CVE-2026-46040

Linux kernel CVE-2026-46040 concerns inotify watch count leaks in the error path of inotify_new_watch when fsnotify_add_inode_mark_locked() fails. The code increments watches with inc_inotify_watches() before the mark insertion, but the error path only calls inotify_remove_from_idr() and omits de...

CVE-2026-46040

inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotifyaddinodemarklocked fails...

PT-2026-43907

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotify add inode mark locked fails When fsnotify add inode mark locked fails in inotify new watch, the error path calls inotify remove from idr but does not call dec inotify watches to undo th...

CVE-2025-38615 fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted ilink. When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted...