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CVE-2026-64185

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the caller did not create. Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64185
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 07:54 UTC
Published
2026-07-19 15:41 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-19 15:41 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux c855cf2759d27142f771173d9fd8e7fdf9cf5138 < c5e125c828b701afaf7493b42a14aa89362ff36d, c855cf2759d27142f771173d9fd8e7fdf9cf5138 < ccadd32cc1263802a5969c9efe0e96225450428c, c855cf2759d27142f771173d9fd8e7fdf9cf5138 < 14f2c14ae86c4af17a0a9f8ab46dacf2d5fd1d8a, c855cf2759d27142f771173d9fd8e7fdf9cf5138 < 31527d80234caf83dc96ad478645e57df9de4472 …
Linux Linux 4.19, 0 < 4.19, 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* …
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