CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90263
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: check if root is readonly when setting posix acl
For a filesystem which has btrfs read-only property set to true, all
write operations including acl and xattr should be denied. However, acl
can still be set even if btrfs ro property is true.
This happens because no function on the set_acl code path checks the root
is readonly or not. It was checked in btrfs_setxattr_trans() but got
removed in commit 353c2ea735e4 ("btrfs: remove redundant readonly root
check in btrfs_setxattr_trans")
That commit didn't check if all the callers properly check the root's
read-only flag. A previous fix is commit b51111271b03 ("btrfs: check if
root is readonly while setting security xattr").
Always check if the root is read-only before performing the set acl
operation.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01c2f41fc441f75b3f9326443372faceb1cb6638 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20b2c2f3316e82a76ae3358c0bd45824f50f3fd5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce8103676f4d4b13e1f087fcfb34f80774d30be2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5602f96ff1e266f069b4d0d94f441050e057e06 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3a6e90a0a6350a6d43fed9f005f54171809580 git.kernel.org