CVE-2026-64074 (GCVE-0-2026-64074)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-19 15:39
Modified
2026-08-05 12:38
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/statmount: fix slab out-of-bounds write in statmount_mnt_idmap statmount_mnt_idmap() writes one mapping with seq_printf() and then manually advances seq->count to include the NUL separator. If seq_printf() overflows, seq_set_overflow() sets seq->count to seq->size. The manual seq->count++ changes this to seq->size + 1. seq_has_overflowed() then no longer detects the overflow. The corrupted count returns to statmount_string(), which later executes: seq->buf[seq->count++] = '\0'; This causes a 1-byte NULL out-of-bounds write on the dynamically allocated seq buffer. Fix this by checking for overflow immediately after seq_printf().
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Linux Linux Version: 37c4a9590e1efcae7749682239fc22a330d2d325
Version: 37c4a9590e1efcae7749682239fc22a330d2d325
Version: 37c4a9590e1efcae7749682239fc22a330d2d325
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