CVE-2026-72225 (GCVE-0-2026-72225)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:54
Modified
2026-08-23 12:47
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()
jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit() validates journal capacity by
checking (journal->j_last - num_fc_blks < JBD2_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS).
Both j_last and num_fc_blks are unsigned, so when num_fc_blks exceeds
j_last the subtraction wraps to a large value, bypassing the bounds
check.
The resulting underflow corrupts j_last, j_fc_first, and j_free,
leading to journal abort.
Fix by checking num_fc_blks against j_last before the subtraction,
returning -EFSCORRUPTED.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd Version: 6866d7b3f2bb4f011041ba54c98b1584497fe2fd |
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