CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31438
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators
When a process crashes and the kernel writes a core dump to a 9P
filesystem, __kernel_write() creates an ITER_KVEC iterator. This
iterator reaches netfs_limit_iter() via netfs_unbuffered_write(), which
only handles ITER_FOLIOQ, ITER_BVEC and ITER_XARRAY iterator types,
hitting the BUG() for any other type.
Fix this by adding netfs_limit_kvec() following the same pattern as
netfs_limit_bvec(), since both kvec and bvec are simple segment arrays
with pointer and length fields. Dispatch it from netfs_limit_iter() when
the iterator type is ITER_KVEC.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.12.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d6df7115f6972370974212de9088087820802e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18c2e20b42dd21db599e42d05ddaeeb647b2bb6d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bc2d72c7695cedf6d4e1a558924903c2b28a78e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67e467a11f62ff64ad219dc6aa5459e132c79d14 Patch