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CVE-2026-74596

fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare() The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary here. Filesystems could have fsverity files even without fs-verity enabled. In that case, truncate on fsverity file will succeed, what this check is trying to prevent.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected a4ca8102e70e10f8cfa63d922468d21500f3c090 before 3f3b0898557a93122a7f941e6a89adef2bb29ce4; affected cc99c58f735bc55e6321f1f575ea218da91dcc4c before fd4ed50c134fd9f2334b8b29d117f3af5fe250e9; affected 2efdeec99ca09a9d638e1bcdc1a4afbfe3b4f2ec before b4c0c41b952c21baed3f822eab508ebbd1d355d9; affected e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c before 2d2b2ed7bdcc6df4942292318c5455b5e94ba525; affected e9734653c523c744f03333ece6ae7a315187f05c before d2f96bcb89d36d488a10e3bcf819b98536968286
Linux / Linuxaffected 7.0; unaffected 0 before 7.0; unaffected 7.1.9 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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