CVE-2026-45252 (GCVE-0-2026-45252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-21 09:08 – Updated: 2026-05-21 13:47
VLAI
Title
Heap overflow in FUSE_LISTXATTR
Summary
When a fusefs file system implements extended attributes, the kernel may send a FUSE_LISTXATTR message to the userspace daemon to retrieve the list of extended attributes for a given file. The FUSE protocol requires the daemon to return a packed list of NUL-terminated strings. The fusefs kernel module calls strlen() on this daemon-supplied buffer without first verifying that the entire list is NUL-terminated. If a malicious daemon sends a non-NUL-terminated list, the fusefs kernel module may read beyond the end of one heap-allocated buffer and potentially write beyond the end of a second buffer. A malicious daemon could disclose up to 253 bytes of kernel heap memory, or it could inject up to 250 attacker-controlled bytes into unallocated kernel heap space.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeBSD FreeBSD Affected: 15.0-RELEASE , < p9 (release)
Affected: 14.4-RELEASE , < p5 (release)
Affected: 14.3-RELEASE , < p14 (release)
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Date Public
2026-05-20 23:00
Credits
Joshua Rogers of AISLE Research Team
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