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FKIE_CVE-2026-80958

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-11 20:19 - Updated: 2026-09-13 07:17

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-pcache: clamp the tail kset read to the segment data region The tail-kset read in cache_replay(), the writeback worker and the GC worker bounds its length by PCACHE_SEG_SIZE - seg_off, the raw segment size rather than the data region. A tail near the segment end reads past the segment data into the following control area. Clamp the read to cache_seg_remain(), the data region.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ab55354368d071ebaee4d8c82313955eab65a04
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cd9776fe3f2d88ec22c36d3c8ba09fbf9d5500c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/becf07e2b0053027495ecd671b1f82fb2e615f68

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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          "programFiles": [
            "drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c",
            "drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c",
            "drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c"
          ],
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CVE-2026-80958 (GCVE-0-2026-80958)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:28

Title

dm-pcache: clamp the tail kset read to the segment data region

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cd9776fe3f2d88ec…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ab55354368d071eb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/becf07e2b00530274…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 , < 2cd9776fe3f2d88ec22c36d3c8ba09fbf9d5500c (git) Affected: 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 , < 1ab55354368d071ebaee4d8c82313955eab65a04 (git) Affected: 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 , < becf07e2b0053027495ecd671b1f82fb2e615f68 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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