CVE-2026-46070

md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.1
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Undergoing Analysis

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata r5c_recovery_analyze_meta_block() and r5l_recovery_verify_data_checksum_for_mb() iterate over payloads in a journal metadata block using on-disk payload size fields without validating them against the remaining space in the metadata block. A corrupted journal contains payload sizes extending beyond the PAGE_SIZE boundary can cause out-of-bounds reads when accessing payload fields or computing offsets. Add bounds validation for each payload type to ensure the full payload fits within meta_size before processing.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < c96c6f01d84b5c67db1bf1cc8591c0b7146826fc ; affected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < ef4851d8324fd978ca1ff9ec76a275438f887743 ; affected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < 28d3ff7109c66e99dc1b7cddacb5c760849620ef ; affected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < 33698bd1b2db9764a29df7751533d33967ff5c98 ; affected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < c3a1cf78bd1bbb51b2cc5189b4743056553c1e0e ; affected b4c625c67362b3940f619c1a836b4e8329106658 < 73ce72edd113374801045924d4417199963f73a3
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.10 ; unaffected 0 < 4.10 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 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
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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