In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ufs: validate cylinder group...

zetlyn/cve-ghsa vulnerability ghsa GHSA-35q6-8fhf-pg65 cve CVE-2026-97926 known 2026-09-25

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35q6-8fhf-pg65

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2026-09-28 11:44 UTC
Last answered
2026-10-06 13:46 UTC
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  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nufs: validate cylinder group metadata before caching it\n\nufs_read_cylinder() copies the cylinder group index and the rotor\npositions straight from the on-disk group and caches them without any\ncheck:\n\n\tucpi->c_cgx    = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_cgx);\n\tucpi->c_rotor  = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_rotor);\n\tucpi->c_frotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_frotor);\n\tucpi->c_irotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_irotor);\n\nThey are then used as indices during allocation and free:\n\n  - c_cgx indexes the cylinder summary array as\n    UFS_SB(sb)->fs_cs(ucpi->c_cgx), so a value past s_ncg writes a 32\n    bit count outside the s_csp allocation.\n\n  - c_frotor becomes a bitmap scan start, start = c_frotor >> 3, and\n    then length = ((s_fpg + 7) >> 3) - start. A start beyond the block\n    bitmap wraps the unsigned length to a huge value, so ubh_scanc()\n    walks far past the cylinder group buffers. c_irotor drives the\n    inode bitmap the same way.\n\nA crafted image can set any of these freely, turning an ordinary\nallocation into an out of bounds access.\n\nReject a cylinder group whose recorded index does not match the group\nbeing read, or whose rotors fall outside the group, before the metadata\nis cached. Valid filesystems keep cg_cgx equal to the group number and\nthe rotors within the group, so only malformed images are rejected.",
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Last answered
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  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nufs: validate cylinder group metadata before caching it\n\nufs_read_cylinder() copies the cylinder group index and the rotor\npositions straight from the on-disk group and caches them without any\ncheck:\n\n\tucpi->c_cgx    = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_cgx);\n\tucpi->c_rotor  = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_rotor);\n\tucpi->c_frotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_frotor);\n\tucpi->c_irotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_irotor);\n\nThey are then used as indices during allocation and free:\n\n  - c_cgx indexes the cylinder summary array as\n    UFS_SB(sb)->fs_cs(ucpi->c_cgx), so a value past s_ncg writes a 32\n    bit count outside the s_csp allocation.\n\n  - c_frotor becomes a bitmap scan start, start = c_frotor >> 3, and\n    then length = ((s_fpg + 7) >> 3) - start. A start beyond the block\n    bitmap wraps the unsigned length to a huge value, so ubh_scanc()\n    walks far past the cylinder group buffers. c_irotor drives the\n    inode bitmap the same way.\n\nA crafted image can set any of these freely, turning an ordinary\nallocation into an out of bounds access.\n\nReject a cylinder group whose recorded index does not match the group\nbeing read, or whose rotors fall outside the group, before the metadata\nis cached. Valid filesystems keep cg_cgx equal to the group number and\nthe rotors within the group, so only malformed images are rejected.",
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ufs: validate cylinder group... In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ufs: validate cylinder group metadata before caching it ufs_read_cylinder() copies the cylinder group index and the rotor positions straight from the on-disk group and caches them without any check: ucpi->c_cgx = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_cgx); ucpi->c_rotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_rotor); ucpi->c_frotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_frotor); ucpi->c_irotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg->cg_irotor); They are then used as indices during allocation and free: - c_cgx indexes the cylinder summary array as UFS_SB(sb)->fs_cs(ucpi->c_cgx), so a value past s_ncg writes a 32 bit count outside the s_csp allocation. - c_frotor becomes a bitmap scan start, start = c_frotor >> 3, and then length = ((s_fpg + 7) >> 3) - start. A start beyond the block bitmap wraps the unsigned length to a huge value, so ubh_scanc() walks far past the cylinder group buffers. c_irotor drives the inode bitmap the same way. A crafted image can set any of these freely, turning an ordinary allocation into an out of bounds access. Reject a cylinder group whose recorded index does not match the group being read, or whose rotors fall outside the group, before the metadata is cached. Valid filesystems keep cg_cgx equal to the group number and the rotors within the group, so only malformed images are rejected.