CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46159
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix btrfs_ioctl_space_info() slot_count TOCTOU which can lead to info-leak
btrfs_ioctl_space_info() has a TOCTOU race between two passes over the
block group RAID type lists. The first pass counts entries to determine
the allocation size, then the second pass fills the buffer. The
groups_sem rwlock is released between passes, allowing concurrent block
group removal to reduce the entry count.
When the second pass fills fewer entries than the first pass counted,
copy_to_user() copies the full alloc_size bytes including trailing
uninitialized kmalloc bytes to userspace.
Fix by copying only total_spaces entries (the actually-filled count from
the second pass) instead of alloc_size bytes, and switch to kzalloc so
any future copy size mismatch cannot leak heap data.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.34.1 < 6.6.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.32)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.7)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fdc6ee0802121d9cd96b8d085e589f51e5a4ec3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d12e0ab009ade48c1bff9324fd9bea2c773d088 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/973e57c726c1f8e77259d1c8e519519f1e9aea77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d09d67d5de577cedae3de9497dff217e0ac8b641 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d69a4a6813fdba7c4cc3695a7e843842b240790d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8224b1be6627c6c3b204bfb264508d27c65ac44 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f407aad350bdea4db300c47433573b7a41630d33 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5ee467b56764964027c361641f64953fc0f8f9a Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com