In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: validate directory-index entry counts when reading metadata ocfs2_validate_dx_leaf() and ocfs2_validate_dx_root() check the ECC and signature of an indexed-directory block before it reaches higher-level callers, but neither validator bounds the ocfs2_dx_entry_list counts against the capacity of the block that holds them. ocfs2_dx_dir_search() then walks for (i = 0; i < le16_to_cpu(entry_list->de_num_used); i++) dx_entry = &entry_list->de_entries[i]; over de_num_used entries with no bounds check. entry_list is either dx_leaf->dl_list (from ocfs2_read_dx_leaf) or, for an inline root, dx_root->dr_entries. A crafted on-disk image can set de_num_used (and de_count, which is the __counted_by_le() bound of de_entries) to 0xffff and make the walk read far past the end of the 4KB metadata block, giving a slab out-of-bounds read reachable from any path lookup, stat() or open() on an indexed directory once the image is mounted. Commit 775c17386a6f ("ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read") already bounds dr_list for the non-inline dx_root, but left the inline dr_entries path and the dx_leaf dl_list unchecked. Add the same read-time validation for both entry lists: de_count must equal the capacity of the block (ocfs2_dx_entries_per_leaf()/per_root()) and de_num_used must not exceed de_count, rejecting corrupted metadata with -EFSCORRUPTED before ocfs2_dx_dir_search() can walk an out-of-range entry array. de_count is always written as exactly the block capacity when a leaf or inline root is formatted, so the equality check does not reject any valid image. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
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 5
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:47
- References+1 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:20
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:20
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 08:47
- First seenCVSS 9.8NVD modified 2026-10-19 09:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e661f55ca8568471fce558effe81cca112f5cb2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aad3129b8e915d0ff492bb7517d825d8490cfdd9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8a5c0c32df2c5b685ceef76ac77e37c7e1dc3ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc70726ddad53c7e9a9a85915bf2415b0d4f42f9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcfcba8fe17dbf2c8805690b8cc25e32d81249a4