CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90203
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
If a negative offset is read off disk (for example the offset into the
decompressed fragment block), this will cause squashfs_copy_data() to
perform an out of bounds access.
Fix by checking if offset is negative, and returning 0. This matches
existing behaviour where an offset beyond the block returns 0 bytes
copied.
To trigger this out of bounds access requires a crafted Squashfs
filesystem and CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount it. Unprivileged users will not be
able to mount such a filesystem, but once mounted, an unprivileged user
can trigger the out of bounds access by reading the crafted file with the
negative offset.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2f0cb66c909ea2312cdef465165bb9a3ba2d84 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95dadf366c117dcdca78a570e6832071deab1ecd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b169185d5c672b989985c6c2e38cafab2548ba88 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbb2218eb072b0a15dc063929200183bd23c2344 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2a126fca820ae74872da28de68dc74d4595dc4b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0a3729d464fcf516416a41cf304c0c92126ee03 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e300eb5002925b29be803d2661af07266cfa267e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4afd90bc7bf3dd477970c6c42bdd29ad3fda7fe git.kernel.org