FKIE_CVE-2026-46130
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-28 10:16 - Updated: 2026-06-24 17:54
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-verity-fec: fix reading parity bytes split across blocks (take 3)
fec_decode_bufs() assumes that the parity bytes of the first RS codeword
it decodes are never split across parity blocks.
This assumption is false. Consider v->fec->block_size == 4096 &&
v->fec->roots == 17 && fio->nbufs == 1, for example. In that case, each
call to fec_decode_bufs() consumes v->fec->roots * (fio->nbufs <<
DM_VERITY_FEC_BUF_RS_BITS) = 272 parity bytes.
Considering that the parity data for each message block starts on a
block boundary, the byte alignment in the parity data will iterate
through 272*i mod 4096 until the 3 parity blocks have been consumed. On
the 16th call (i=15), the alignment will be 4080 bytes into the first
block. Only 16 bytes remain in that block, but 17 parity bytes will be
needed. The code reads out-of-bounds from the parity block buffer.
Fortunately this doesn't normally happen, since it can occur only for
certain non-default values of fec_roots *and* when the maximum number of
buffers couldn't be allocated due to low memory. For example with
block_size=4096 only the following cases are affected:
fec_roots=17: nbufs in [1, 3, 5, 15]
fec_roots=19: nbufs in [1, 229]
fec_roots=21: nbufs in [1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 39, 65, 195]
fec_roots=23: nbufs in [1, 89]
Regardless, fix it by refactoring how the parity blocks are read.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.13 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.13 |
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