CVE-2026-74723

btrfs: lzo: reject inline extents without valid headers

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

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

btrfs: lzo: reject inline extents without valid headers

[BUG] For a crafted btrfs image, the following KASAN can be triggered when reading an inline lzo compressed file extent:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in lzo_decompress+0x57d/0x700 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888006f2e644 by task btrfs_lzo_inlin/77

Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x70 print_report+0xd1/0x610 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 __asan_report_load_n_noabort+0x13/0x20 lzo_decompress+0x57d/0x700 btrfs_decompress+0x140/0x1c0 uncompress_inline+0x147/0x1b0 btrfs_get_extent+0xb23/0x10a0 btrfs_do_readpage.constprop.0+0x538/0x1ac0 btrfs_readahead+0x32f/0x5f0 read_pages+0x16f/0x850 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x296/0x490 do_page_cache_ra+0xd9/0x130 page_cache_sync_ra+0x3ee/0x6f0 filemap_get_pages+0x306/0x15c0 filemap_read+0x329/0xd00 btrfs_file_read_iter+0x1f8/0x2b0 vfs_read+0x4ef/0x720 ksys_read+0xf8/0x1d0 __x64_sys_read+0x71/0xb0 x64_sys_call+0x1ab0/0x1b70 do_syscall_64+0x61/0x470 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK>

[CAUSE] For an inline lzo compressed file extent, there should always be one lzo header, recording the total length of the compressed data, followed by one segment header, recording the compressed lzo payload.

But if a crafted inline lzo compressed file extent contains only an lzo header, without the segment header or payload, lzo_decompress() will still try to read the segment header, causing a read beyond the item boundary.

Furthermore if the inline lzo compressed file extent is the first item of the leaf, it will be at the extent buffer boundary. The above out-of-boundary read will go beyond the extent buffer boundary, triggering the above KASAN report.

[FIX] Validate the total length of the inlined lzo compressed file extent, to make sure there is at least one LZO header and one segment header, and a non-zero payload.

[ Rework the commit message to remove slop ]

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before 0b824d657d2403e8dbe4257d62825e66f79dcf8cAffected
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before 5d00c9c1c951ae82d498eabbdfff973252a05c50Affected
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before fd150d7c8e0ad9d721c011cfd4cc0f3c65bd6834Affected
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before 056876c9db1e969bfcf7d8583c7696cc0dd080dfAffected
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before fc50b475ad27f50b4dcc98fc4c44e8802bc1b248Affected
  • a6fa6fae40ec336c7df6155255ae64ebef43a8bc to before 0fa78ef637deb5dbe341582f88553a4bce496de0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.38Affected
  • before 2.6.38Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.9 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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