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FKIE_CVE-2026-89720

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-11 20:20 - Updated: 2026-09-14 13:19
Severity
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check ubifs_sb_verify_signature() bounds the on-disk ubifs_sig_node->len field before handing the signature payload to verify_pkcs7_signature(), but the check has the wrong sign: if (le32_to_cpu(signode->len) > snod->len + sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node)) The signature bytes start sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node) (UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ, 64 bytes) into the node, so the payload is at most snod->len - sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node) bytes long. Adding the header size instead of subtracting it accepts a declared length up to 2 * UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ larger than the node actually holds -- past the end of c->sbuf, which is vmalloc(c->leb_size). verify_pkcs7_signature() -> pkcs7_parse_message() -> asn1_ber_decoder() is then handed that inflated length and reads beyond the allocation while walking the DER headers. The node length comes straight from the mounted image, so a crafted signed UBIFS image reaches this via ubifs_read_superblock() before the signature is cryptographically checked. snod->len is guaranteed to be >= UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ by the node scanner (c->ranges[UBIFS_SIG_NODE].min_len == UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ), so the corrected subtraction cannot underflow. Legitimately signed images are unaffected: a correct superblock never declares a signature longer than the node it is embedded in.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11abc34698cb3172badf8aa12e623f1bac98bbd8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a9d25a563f5f9103282954ce573c4a61321e7c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e1aa9f5f906c9b1f4949d0521f0f950a159d96
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cc3da72cf57acb4b77442ea8cec48425dff7c06
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95d27c1708bb6e8823c8e7c623f9abc2a91bf4bf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1dc246f98bb94233effa4fa3ec7bf84700bb7d1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab7405bd86331cc2dbc8201699d4adc33bea75e7
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76b79d6e42af20682495bccd22f72c7164b0018
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-14T13:19:21.230",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
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