Not yet scoredPublished Dec 24, 2025

CVE-2023-54119inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 4:00 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).

CVSS: Not yet scored
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: Deferred
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before 8fb33166aed888769ea63d6af49515893f8a1f14; 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 builds before 2d65c97777e5b4a845637800d5d7b648f5772106; from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before 17ad86d8c12220de97e80d88b5b4c934a40e1812; from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before 145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43; from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before fb3294998489d39835006240e9c6e6b2ac62022e; from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before a48bacee05860c6089c3482bcdc80720b0ee5732; from 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 before c915d8f5918bea7c3962b09b8884ca128bfd9b0c	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fb33166aed888769ea63d6af49515893f8a1f14
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d65c97777e5b4a845637800d5d7b648f5772106
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ad86d8c12220de97e80d88b5b4c934a40e1812
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3294998489d39835006240e9c6e6b2ac62022e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a48bacee05860c6089c3482bcdc80720b0ee5732
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c915d8f5918bea7c3962b09b8884ca128bfd9b0c

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