GHSA-M3CP-9JQ6-3GG3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-23 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-14 15:31In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction
There are two problems with the recursive correction:
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It may cause denial-of-service. In fec_read_bufs, there is a loop that has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call verity_hash_for_block recursively. There is a limit of 4 nested recursions - that means that there may be at most 253^4 (4 billion) iterations. Red Hat QE team actually created an image that pushes dm-verity to this limit - and this image just makes the udev-worker process get stuck in the 'D' state.
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It doesn't work. In fec_read_bufs we store data into the variable "fio->bufs", but fio bufs is shared between recursive invocations, if "verity_hash_for_block" invoked correction recursively, it would overwrite partially filled fio->bufs.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-71161"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-193"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-01-23T16:15:53Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction\n\nThere are two problems with the recursive correction:\n\n1. It may cause denial-of-service. In fec_read_bufs, there is a loop that\nhas 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call verity_hash_for_block\nrecursively. There is a limit of 4 nested recursions - that means that\nthere may be at most 253^4 (4 billion) iterations. Red Hat QE team\nactually created an image that pushes dm-verity to this limit - and this\nimage just makes the udev-worker process get stuck in the \u0027D\u0027 state.\n\n2. It doesn\u0027t work. In fec_read_bufs we store data into the variable\n\"fio-\u003ebufs\", but fio bufs is shared between recursive invocations, if\n\"verity_hash_for_block\" invoked correction recursively, it would\noverwrite partially filled fio-\u003ebufs.",
"id": "GHSA-m3cp-9jq6-3gg3",
"modified": "2026-07-14T15:31:32Z",
"published": "2026-01-23T18:31:28Z",
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/232948cf600fba69aff36b25d85ef91a73a35756"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/897d9006e75f46f8bd7df78faa424327ae6a4bcf"
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