CVE-2026-68159 (GCVE-0-2026-68159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-10 11:59
Modified
2026-08-23 12:46
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE
__decode_pg_temp() decodes an user-controlled length but only rejects
values large enough to overflow the allocation; it does not bound it to
CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE. The helper backs both pg_temp and pg_upmap decoding, and
apply_upmap()/get_temp_osds() later copy the decoded list into the fixed-size
on-stack array struct ceph_osds.osds[CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE]. A monitor that sends
an OSDMap with a pg_temp/pg_upmap entry longer than 32 thus causes a stack
out-of-bounds write.
An OSD set for a single PG can never exceed CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE, so reject longer
entries at decode time. The bound is well below the old overflow threshold, so
it also covers the allocation-size overflow the previous check guarded against.
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ceph_pg_to_up_acting_osds
Write of size 4 ... by task exploit
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
ceph_pg_to_up_acting_osds (net/ceph/osdmap.c:2617 net/ceph/osdmap.c:2833)
calc_target (net/ceph/osd_client.c:1638)
__submit_request (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2394)
ceph_osdc_start_request (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2490)
ceph_osdc_call (net/ceph/osd_client.c:5164)
rbd_dev_image_probe (drivers/block/rbd.c:6899)
do_rbd_add (drivers/block/rbd.c:7138)
...
kernel BUG at net/ceph/osdmap.c:2670!
[ idryomov: do the same in __decode_pg_upmap_items() ]
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 Version: a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 |
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