CVE-2026-52990

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit a race condition in the fsnotifyrecalcmask function, which fails to properly handle an inode reference. This improper handling can lead to an inode reference leak, causing tasks to hang and resulting in a Denial of Service DoS f...

EUVD-2026-38858

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: fix inode reference leak in fsnotifyrecalcmask fsnotifyrecalcmask fails to handle the return value of fsnotifyrecalcmask, which may return an inode pointer that needs to be released via fsnotifydropobject when the...

CVE-2026-52990

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: fix inode reference leak in fsnotifyrecalcmask fsnotifyrecalcmask fails to handle the return value of fsnotifyrecalcmask, which may return an inode pointer that needs to be released via fsnotifydropobject when the...

CVE-2026-52990

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: fix inode reference leak in fsnotifyrecalcmask fsnotifyrecalcmask fails to handle the return value of fsnotifyrecalcmask, which may return an inode pointer that needs to be released via fsnotifydropobject when the...

CVE-2026-52990 fsnotify: fix inode reference leak in fsnotify_recalc_mask()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: fix inode reference leak in fsnotifyrecalcmask fsnotifyrecalcmask fails to handle the return value of fsnotifyrecalcmask, which may return an inode pointer that needs to be released via fsnotifydropobject when the...

CVE-2026-52990

The CVE-2026-52990 issue affects the Linux kernel fsnotify subsystem, where fsnotify_recalc_mask() can leak an inode reference if the HAS_IREF flag transitions from true to false and the returned inode pointer is not released. A race between adding and detaching marks may skip proper cleanup, cau...

PT-2026-51884

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An inode reference leak exists in the fsnotify subsystem. The function fsnotify recalc mask fails to handle the return value of fsnotify recalc mask, which may return an inode pointer th...