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ubuntu-cve-2026-46294
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-06-08 17:16
Modified
2026-09-09 12:05
Summary
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing Tony Asleson (using Claude) found a buffer overflow in dm-ioctl in the function retrieve_status: 1. The code in retrieve_status checks that the output string fits into the output buffer and writes the output string there 2. Then, the code aligns the "outptr" variable to the next 8-byte boundary: outptr = align_ptr(outptr); 3. The alignment doesn't check overflow, so outptr could point past the buffer end 4. The "for" loop is iterated again, it executes: remaining = len - (outptr - outbuf); 5. If "outptr" points past "outbuf + len", the arithmetics wraps around and the variable "remaining" contains unusually high number 6. With "remaining" being high, the code writes more data past the end of the buffer Luckily, this bug has no security implications because: 1. Only root can issue device mapper ioctls 2. The commonly used libraries that communicate with device mapper (libdevmapper and devicemapper-rs) use buffer size that is aligned to 8 bytes - thus, "outptr = align_ptr(outptr)" can't overshoot the input buffer and the bug can't happen accidentally

References
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46294 REPORT
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46294 REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/linus/2fa49cc884f6496a915c… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fa49cc884f6496a9… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448ee8fb79c26a265… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/526ff9126a0ae087b… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5af6a879e915ae7bc… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8daa6c708ef524089… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8c5311237448f6ff… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d271631023cbe1cbe… REPORT
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0b0b09d9840838ae… REPORT
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8566-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8568-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8569-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8567-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8574-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8575-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8576-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8593-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8574-2 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8595-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8596-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8575-2 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8576-2 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8603-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8595-2 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8606-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8607-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8608-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8609-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8575-3 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8610-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8618-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8574-3 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8595-3 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8619-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8620-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8620-2 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8620-3 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8620-4 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8663-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8664-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8665-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8668-1 ADVISORY
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8728-1 ADVISORY

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