CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-98141

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-25 Modified 2026-10-27 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-25
Last modified
2026-10-27
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-252

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored. Propagate the error to the caller.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 7.1 < 7.2.7) • linux linux kernel 7.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value weakness

References