CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98443
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- 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:
xfs: fix cursor and pointer handling when recovering iunlink buckets
LOLLM pointed out a bug in xlog_recover_iunlink_bucket:
1. We don't null out prev_ip after releasing it, which can lead to UAF
problems if the inodegc flush call in the loop fails.
at which point I noticed even more bugs:
2. If the inodegc flush inside the loop fails, we also leak @ip.
3. We set prev_agino to agino having already advanced agino, which
results in inodes with i_prev_unlinked set to itself.
4. If we exit the bottom of the loop with prev_ip set, then prev_ip
aliases ip and we also set its i_prev_unlinked to itself.
Bugs 3 and 4 introduce loops into the unlinked list, though these loops
don't surface because we immediately flush each unlinked inode after
loading it.
Fix all of these issues.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47a948ba653a463d429e02fda2f06a3d6b78666d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f39d09d73718611cee40399179323b5d4ead00 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66a2179d02668f8df44b1a249899006f3ba38ea0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c9d5b8a96d6b93eb24e07b4163c89341ba29bd1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/961c717e6bf0e53c2c2b1fe4aef1add9390fedab git.kernel.org