btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43359
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before. This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume. Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode. A test case for fstests will follow soon.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-191 — Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174 ; affected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e ; affected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < 2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5 ; affected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be ; affected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < 41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d ; affected dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 < 87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.12 ; unaffected 0 < 3.12 ; unaffected 6.1.167 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.78 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.19 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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