Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-45915

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Corrupted FAT images can leave a directory inode with an incorrect i_nlink (e.g. 2 even though subdirectories exist). rmd…

EPSS: 0.000 (9.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 9a53c3a783c2fa9b969628e65695c11c3e51e673, 2.6.19, 0

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