CVE-2025-71239
Published: Mar 17, 2026
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class fchmodat2(), introduced in version 6.6 is currently not in the change attribute class of audit. Calling fchmodat2() to change a file attribute in the same fashion than chmod() or fchmodat() will bypass audit rules such as: -w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa The current patch adds fchmodat2() to the change attributes class.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 09da082b07bbae1c11d9560c8502800039aebcea - < 91e27bc79c3bca93c06bf5a471d47df9a35b3741affected 09da082b07bbae1c11d9560c8502800039aebcea - < 3e762a03713e8c25ca0108c075d662c897fc0623affected 09da082b07bbae1c11d9560c8502800039aebcea - < 4fed776ca86378da7dd743a7b648e20b025ba8efaffected 09da082b07bbae1c11d9560c8502800039aebcea - < c4334c0d0e7d6f02ed93756fd4ba807e3d00c05faffected 09da082b07bbae1c11d9560c8502800039aebcea - < 4f493a6079b588cf1f04ce5ed6cdad45ab0d53dc |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.6unaffected 0 - < 6.6unaffected 6.6.128 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.75 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.18.16 - <= 6.18.*+2 more versions |
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