CVE-2026-45991

udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping Mounting a crafted UDF image with repeated partition descriptors can trigger a heap out-of-bounds write in part_descs_loc[]. handle_partition_descriptor() deduplicates entries by partition number, but appended slots never record partnum. As a result duplicate Partition Descriptors are appended repeatedly and num_part_descs keeps growing. Once the table is full, the growth path still sizes the allocation from partnum even though inserts are indexed by num_part_descs. If partnum is already aligned to PART_DESC_ALLOC_STEP, ALIGN(partnum, step) can keep the old capacity and the next append writes past the end of the table. Store partnum in the appended slot and size growth from the next append count so deduplication and capacity tracking follow the same model.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < ad3c0c4400686f6f37b382aaa48fac2b9aefccbe ; affected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < 68013a9bd4c01acd42073715f00e1a1992f089ee ; affected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < e8474cfbac9ada2cdaa4eaedec22aadfa0f58559 ; affected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < 058b451b1039f056d1362c4fec2229e522366ab0 ; affected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < b5597bb83fc37b5b5da74a4453fa920b932cf39a ; affected ee4af50ca94f58afc3532662779b9cf80bbe27c8 < 73df74544b55241dca5dd788523e6f5f10bd2b9b
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.19 ; unaffected 0 < 4.19 ; unaffected 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.*

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD