CVE-2026-46023

dm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log()

The argument count calculation in create_dirty_log() performs `*args_used = 2 + param_count` before validating against argc. When a user provides a param_count close to UINT_MAX via the device mapper table string, this unsigned addition wraps around to a small value, causing the subsequent `argc < *args_used` check to be bypassed.

The overflowed param_count is then passed as argc to dm_dirty_log_create(), where it can cause out-of-bounds reads on the argv array.

Fix by comparing param_count against argc - 2 before performing the addition, following the same pattern used by parse_features() in the same file. Since argc >= 2 is already guaranteed, the subtraction is safe.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before e5e0ae3237584ebef510366c4cb3d5cc7c22b610Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 249c831183fb806c8e3b14c7c4c1d2fb68cf37fbAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ae59b3025609d5a0a39cf5b2b94e2467f6231573Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 35f6b3281efd44d19110574663bc17a610bc73b9Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 47dad9eea75d33212d3d2cea10e7ed6a1bfc0713Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 87c99a50e0fdc68a5b9b52a94d49452cd3ff02caAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 17a08791d428885d00e510864283a7b839792368Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 4c788c6f921b22f9b6c3f316c4a071c05683e7deAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 5.10.258 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.140 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.86 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.27 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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