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CVE-2026-89584 (GCVE-0-2026-89584)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:44 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:31
VLAI
Title
block: validate user space vectors during extraction
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: validate user space vectors during extraction The bio-based drivers don't necessarily check the alignment split, and stacking block drivers don't always handle a misalignment detected after submitting the bio. Validate user vectors against the device's dma_alignment as the bio is built from the iov_iter, rejecting misaligned early with -EINVAL.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5ff3f74e145adc79b49668adb8de276446acf6be , < d44a97a3b1c00cc571245124e23e5ceb0a0225a0 (git)
Affected: 5ff3f74e145adc79b49668adb8de276446acf6be , < 14b007e178811db72fbb1ebb3535160db6ec1e6a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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