CVE-2026-23388 (GCVE-0-2026-23388)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-25 10:28
Modified
2026-04-18 08:58
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range Syzkaller reports a "general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data" This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which produces a negative metadata block offset. This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds access. The fix is to check that the offset is within range in squashfs_read_metadata. This will trap this and other cases.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Version: f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
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