In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE. As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes into the following kernel page. Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into the readdir cache.
Fix
Public exploits 1
- 0xCyberstan/CVE-2026-31694-POC PoC on GitHub
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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8f Patch
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Change history 3
- Cpes+1 CPE criteria (now 4)NVD modified 2026-10-23 14:06
- StatusModified → AnalyzedNVD modified 2026-10-23 14:06
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 4
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_tm_mfp_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8f Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html Third Party Advisory