{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-64567", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-07-19T15:36:31.797Z", "datePublished": "2026-08-05T08:08:06.015Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-19T16:28:41.793Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-19T16:28:41.793Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages\n\nWhen loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes\nnum_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk\nbtrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key\nwith type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is\nvalidated before the load trusts it.\n\nThe load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current\none runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -> io_ctl_map_page(), which\ndoes io_ctl->pages[io_ctl->index++]. But pages[] is allocated in\nio_ctl_init() from the cache inode's i_size, not from num_entries:\n\n\tnum_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);\n\tio_ctl->pages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);\n\nSo if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl->index\nruns off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because\nio_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once\nio_ctl->index >= io_ctl->num_pages; the read side just never had the same\ncheck.\n\nTo trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = here), set num_entries\nin the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes\nthe tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and\npages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read\n65536 entries, io_ctl->index walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the\narray:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58\n io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)\n __load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820)\n load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017)\n caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880)\n btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312)\n process_one_work\n worker_thread\n kthread\n ret_from_fork\n\nfree-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc()\nat line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds\nslot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad\nread turns into a GP fault.\n\nAdd the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry\nloop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now\nfails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds\nthe free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached only by mounting a crafted btrfs image so caching_thread → load_free_space_cache → __load_free_space_cache runs; there is no network or adjacent protocol path into v1 free-space cache loading.\nAC:L - The attacker authors a v1 cache with inflated num_entries (and a matching leaf checksum); cache_generation auto-enables SPACE_CACHE on mount, and the OOB in io_ctl_check_crc/io_ctl_map_page is deterministic with no race or uncontrolled condition.\nPR:L - btrfs lacks FS_USERNS_MOUNT, but an unprivileged local user can loop-setup and mount a crafted image via udisks2/polkit on typical desktops/kiosks; real init-namespace root is not required.\nUI:N - In the loop/udisks mount scenario the attacker mounts the image themselves; no separate victim must open a file, click through a prompt, or otherwise interact.\nS:U - The slab OOB and resulting kernel memory misuse stay inside the host kernel's authority; no VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - An out-of-bounds pages[] read yields a forged struct page pointer that is passed to page_address/crc32c and then used as the source for further cache parsing, giving an arbitrary kernel-memory read primitive once adjacent slab contents are groomed.\nI:H - The forged page pointer continues into entry/bitmap load paths (including copy_page into kernel bitmaps and linking attacker-controlled free-space records), a memory-corruption primitive exploitable for arbitrary write and control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Without a valid page pointer the OOB dereference reliably faults (KASAN slab-OOB then GP fault on crc32c as in the report), crashing or oopsing the kernel." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530", "lessThan": "8ded74c654a982dc8581a17b0caa7fcedb20de69", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530", "lessThan": "c9c38066b6446e83668c041702bb639b0ca49363", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530", "lessThan": "094734c7aaa2b36751dc32480a680a4952685e78", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530", "lessThan": "33878ba25e2638bc0c61623d7a05c9ca2b74c039", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530", 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