CVE-2026-97415 (GCVE-0-2026-97415)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:03 – Updated: 2026-09-25 12:43
VLAI
Title
btrfs: tree-checker: validate names in ROOT_REF and ROOT_BACKREF
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: tree-checker: validate names in ROOT_REF and ROOT_BACKREF ROOT_REF and ROOT_BACKREF items contain a struct btrfs_root_ref followed by the subvolume name. Several readers assume that this layout is already valid and then use the on-disk name length directly. A corrupted item can therefore make those readers address bytes outside the item, and BTRFS_IOC_GET_SUBVOL_INFO can copy too many bytes into its fixed-size UAPI name buffer. Validate ROOT_REF and ROOT_BACKREF items in tree-checker before any reader uses them. Reject records that do not contain a non-empty name, whose name_len does not exactly describe the remaining item payload, or whose name exceeds BTRFS_NAME_LEN. For BTRFS_IOC_GET_SUBVOL_INFO, copy only the validated on-disk name_len instead of deriving the copy length from the item size. The ioctl result is zeroed when allocated. That leaves the existing trailing zero byte untouched.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2ede0daf01549cecf4bb0962c46dc47382047523 , < 9154542070ca7eadb3c764a882f39a127677854b (git)
Affected: 2ede0daf01549cecf4bb0962c46dc47382047523 , < 74f577c722c99248d804eca18e7de7c5e47549d7 (git)
Affected: 2ede0daf01549cecf4bb0962c46dc47382047523 , < 0af37c217edf15fa21dac1c40822086df356c6bb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.37
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.37 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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