In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer() replays each dirty region described by a buffer log item's bitmap into the buffer read for that item: memcpy(xfs_buf_offset(bp, (uint)bit << XFS_BLF_SHIFT), item->ri_buf[i].iov_base, nbits << XFS_BLF_SHIFT); The destination offset (bit/nbits, from the logged dirty bitmap) and the buffer size (from the logged blf_len) are both attacker-controlled and otherwise unrelated, yet the only thing bounding the copy is an ASSERT(), which compiles away on production kernels. A crafted image logging a small blf_len together with a bitmap bit past the end of that buffer drives the memcpy() past the buffer's allocation, corrupting adjacent kernel heap during mount-time log recovery. This is reachable by anyone who can get a crafted image mounted -- the malicious-filesystem threat model XFS already guards against elsewhere. Turn the ASSERT() into a real XFS_IS_CORRUPT() check that aborts recovery of the buffer with -EFSCORRUPTED, consistent with the validate-and-fail idiom already used in xlog_recover_do_inode_buffer() and xfs_dquot_item_recover.c. xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer() therefore becomes STATIC int and its three callers propagate the error. Found and confirmed with KASAN on a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n build: the crafted image trips a slab-out-of-bounds write before this change and fails recovery cleanly with -EFSCORRUPTED after it.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.4NVD modified 2026-10-16 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e32d4eebae6ca24f8a673c107fd7eca1f47afc2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/813f8136a2ce1fee266d02a7df73db6e8a541604
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acb4e26295e7f0e685815a3fd3d70bd8329cefa1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7528b42813f02724a78fce1da24d69d1bfc4d38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edaf5b6bd625356893da20d69a259b34a9de2694
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3859c35a4fbc1c1c58431f684f808e43696891d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b5fa83e2c192be922121b764415fa8c7549ea1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8288214459ead7e87d26e5822f62c14a4f2ed6b