CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90321
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: validate inline xattrs during inode block validation
Patch series "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds", v7.
This series validates OCFS2 xattr entry name/value bounds when xattr
metadata is read and validated, before getxattr() or listxattr() can walk
out-of-range entry arrays or offsets from corrupted metadata.
This patch (of 2):
ocfs2_validate_inode_block() verifies a dinode before OCFS2 users walk
metadata from it, but inline xattr metadata is still checked only in
operation-specific consumers. The existing ibody lookup helper validates
inline header placement and entry count, but inode block validation does
not reject entry name/value bounds.
Add a flat xattr entry validator and call it from inode block validation
for inline xattrs. Keep the operation paths on their existing
header/count lookup checks; the full entry bounds check now runs when the
inode block is validated at read time.
Reject corrupted inline xattr metadata before ocfs2_xattr_ibody_get() or
listxattr() can walk past the inline storage.
Validation reproduced this kernel report:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_xattr_find_entry+0x5a/0x170
Read of size 2 at addr ffff8881242a2000 by task python3/529
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0xa0
print_report+0xce/0x630
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110
ocfs2_xattr_find_entry+0x5a/0x170
ocfs2_xattr_get_nolock+0x20a/0x820
ocfs2_xattr_get+0x10c/0x1e0
__vfs_getxattr+0xe2/0x130
vfs_getxattr+0x185/0x1b0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd45b24879fa4885b66a582a6e47eda67f11310 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dec19f6bafe4e1503007141c9f5eb7eb10e5578 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8138d06e7a1d9a0b0481dc015c67b34e8bb60a58 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8914a3330b72378136c2c02d6328a826f6abdad7 git.kernel.org