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FKIE_CVE-2026-89574

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

Severity

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm array: validate array block headers on read array_block_check() validates blocknr and csum and nothing else, while node_check(), next to it, has bounded the structural fields since both were written. dm_array_cursor_next() takes its loop bound from the on-disk nr_entries and element_at() is unguarded pointer arithmetic, so a count larger than the block holds keeps the cursor in one block while the index grows past it and the read walks off the dm-bufio buffer -- dm_cache_load_mappings() drives it once per cache block at activation. Check the header against itself: reject a zero value_size, require max_entries to equal calc_max_entries() for that value_size and block size, and require nr_entries to fit. Equality rather than an upper bound, since a count below the real capacity trips BUG_ON() in fill_ablock() and trim_ablock(). Metadata dm-array writes satisfies all three.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2965787723084835b18dfe993cd450ebf5bd4540
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67adda7ed5da3e3b64f5b9021a02c21fb374fd9c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9808ddffb4bc659352df3020cd84d9d864820ee5
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b33f76d33aaeacf3baf3370d8d64985169b36600

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-89574 (GCVE-0-2026-89574)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:44 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:31

Title

dm array: validate array block headers on read

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67adda7ed5da3e3b6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b33f76d33aaeacf3b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9808ddffb4bc65935…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2965787723084835b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6513c29f44f2cc970c0e9fecfe5a6526c3e73025 , < 67adda7ed5da3e3b64f5b9021a02c21fb374fd9c (git) Affected: 6513c29f44f2cc970c0e9fecfe5a6526c3e73025 , < b33f76d33aaeacf3baf3370d8d64985169b36600 (git) Affected: 6513c29f44f2cc970c0e9fecfe5a6526c3e73025 , < 9808ddffb4bc659352df3020cd84d9d864820ee5 (git) Affected: 6513c29f44f2cc970c0e9fecfe5a6526c3e73025 , < 2965787723084835b18dfe993cd450ebf5bd4540 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (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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