CVE-2026-80536

xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before acb4e26295e7f0e685815a3fd3d70bd8329cefa1Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before f3859c35a4fbc1c1c58431f684f808e43696891dAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before f7b5fa83e2c192be922121b764415fa8c7549ea1Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b7528b42813f02724a78fce1da24d69d1bfc4d38Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7e32d4eebae6ca24f8a673c107fd7eca1f47afc2Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before f8288214459ead7e87d26e5822f62c14a4f2ed6bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before edaf5b6bd625356893da20d69a259b34a9de2694Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 813f8136a2ce1fee266d02a7df73db6e8a541604Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 5.10.267 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.218 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.185 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.154 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.106 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.46 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.10 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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