CVE-2026-99131
CVE-2026-99131CVE-2026-99131
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: fix capability check in xfs
An user reported a bug where he managed to evade group's quota
by changing a file's gid to a different group id the same user
belonged to, even though quotas were enforced on both gids and the
file's size was big enough to exceed the quota's hardlimit.
Commit eba0549bc7d1 replaced a capable() call by a
has_capability_noaudit() to prevent unnecessary selinux audit messages.
Turns out that both calls have slightly different semantics even though
their documentation seems similar. Where in a nutshell:
capable() - Tests the task's effective credentials
has_ns_capability_noaudit() - Tests the task's real credentials
This most of the time has no practical difference but in some cases like
changing attrs (specifically group id in this case) through a NFS client
this will allow the quota code to use XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES, effectively
bypassing quota accounting checks.
Using instead ns_capab
Scoring
| Last modified | 2026-10-28 |