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CVE-2026-52955

9.8 critical SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode() A message of type CEPH_MSG_OSD_MAP containing a crush map with at least one bucket has two fields holding the bucket algorithm. If the values in these two fields differ, an out-of-bounds access can occur. This is the case because the first algorithm field (alg) is used to allocate the correct amount of memory for a bucket of this type, while the second algorithm field inside the bucket (b->alg) is used in the subsequent processing. This patch fixes the issue by adding a check that compares alg and b->alg and aborts the processing in case they differ. Furthermore, b->alg is set to 0 in this case, because the destruction of the crush map also uses this field to determine the bucket type, which can again result in an out-of-bounds access when trying to free the memory pointed to by the fields of the bucket. To correctly free the memory allocated for the bucket in such a case, the corresponding call to kfree is moved from the algorithm-specific crush_destroy_bucket functions to the generic crush_destroy_bucket().

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 2

  1. StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
  2. First seenCVSS 9.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 11

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.34:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 11