In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap xlog_recover_do_re…
CVE-2026-80536 · published 26 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.4 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 2.6.12
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How to fix
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The advisory
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.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e32d4eebae6ca24f8a673c107fd7eca1f47afc2
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/813f8136a2ce1fee266d02a7df73db6e8a541604
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/acb4e26295e7f0e685815a3fd3d70bd8329cefa1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7528b42813f02724a78fce1da24d69d1bfc4d38
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/edaf5b6bd625356893da20d69a259b34a9de2694
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3859c35a4fbc1c1c58431f684f808e43696891d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b5fa83e2c192be922121b764415fa8c7549ea1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8288214459ead7e87d26e5822f62c14a4f2ed6b
Merged from NVD. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON