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CVE-2026-31694 (GCVE-0-2026-31694)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 13:53 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:24
VLAI
Title
fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE. As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes into the following kernel page. Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into the readdir cache.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 , < 7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8f (git)
Affected: 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 , < 474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5 (git)
Affected: 27992ef80770d61a57f6c3a551735b08cefdffa3 , < 51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.25 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.2 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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