High 7.8Published Mar 6, 2024

CVE-2023-52590ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 7:50 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change The VFS will not be locking moved directory if its parent does not change. Change ocfs2 rename code to avoid touching renamed directory if its parent does not change as without locking that can corrupt the filesystem.

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 21, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c before 1743d5a678048735d6d0e88cdede3b88d8234725; from ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c before de940cede3c41624e2de27f805b490999f419df9; from ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c before 9d618d19b29c2943527e3a43da0a35aea91062fc	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	before 6.7.4	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1743d5a678048735d6d0e88cdede3b88d8234725
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de940cede3c41624e2de27f805b490999f419df9	mailing-list, patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d618d19b29c2943527e3a43da0a35aea91062fc	mailing-list, patch

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