CVE-2026-31694

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 1, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 to before 7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8fAffected
  • 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 to before 474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5Affected
  • 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 to before 51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bedAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.25 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.2 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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