CVE-2026-90263 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.84.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-21171240
  • published17 Oct 2026
  • disclosed16 Oct 2026

Introduced: 16 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

btrfs: check if root is readonly when setting posix acl

For a filesystem which has btrfs read-only property set to true, all write operations including acl and xattr should be denied. However, acl can still be set even if btrfs ro property is true.

This happens because no function on the set_acl code path checks the root is readonly or not. It was checked in btrfs_setxattr_trans() but got removed in commit 353c2ea735e4 ("btrfs: remove redundant readonly root check in btrfs_setxattr_trans")

That commit didn't check if all the callers properly check the root's read-only flag. A previous fix is commit b51111271b03 ("btrfs: check if root is readonly while setting security xattr").

Always check if the root is read-only before performing the set acl operation.

CVSS Base Scores

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