Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: Flags PARENTWATCHED are cleared lazily. In some setups, directories can have many usually negative entries. Therefore, the function fsnotifyupdatechilddentryflags can take a significant amount of time. Since most of thi...

Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992690)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-992690 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: clear PARENTWATCHED flags lazily In some setups directories can have many usually...

kernel: fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's fsnotify subsystem. When a parent directory stops watching its children, a race condition can occur during the clearing of PARENTWATCHED flags. This contention on the inode-ilock can lead to system unresponsiveness or softlockups, effectively causing a Denia...

SUSE CVE-2024-47660

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: clear PARENTWATCHED flags lazily In some setups directories can have many usually negative dentries. Hence fsnotifyupdatechilddentryflags function can take a significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47660

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: clear PARENTWATCHED flags lazily In some setups directories can have many usually negative dentries. Hence fsnotifyupdatechilddentryflags function can take a significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function...