CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43359
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- 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-191
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow
If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to
add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction
since we did some metadata updates before.
This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID
field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the
transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user
could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user
has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume.
Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a
transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem
semaphore in exclusive (write) mode.
A test case for fstests will follow soon.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.12 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.9)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be Patch