Upstream information

CVE-2026-43179 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erofs: fix incorrect early exits for invalid metabox-enabled images

Crafted EROFS images with metadata compression enabled can trigger
incorrect early returns, leading to folio reference leaks.

However, this does not cause system crashes or other severe issues.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1264326 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 6 16:02:04 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 12:09:00 2026