CVE-2026-97486

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's HPFS (High Performance File System) implementation. The driver does not verify whether setting the filesystem block size succeeds during a mount operation. A local user with the ability to mount storage devices could exploit this vulnerability by mounting a specially crafted filesystem image, triggering an internal kernel crash and leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

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