ceph: bound xattr value length in __build_xattrs() (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 52 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Received
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: bound xattr value length in __build_xattrs() __build_xattrs() decodes the MDS-supplied xattr blob one attribute at a time. For each attribute it reads a 32-bit name length, advances past the name bytes, reads a 32-bit value length, records the value pointer, and advances past the value bytes. The two length fields are read with ceph_decode_32_safe(), but the value bytes themselves are advanced over with a bare "p += len" and no ceph_decode_need() check that "len" bytes remain in the blob. For every attribute except the last, the next iteration's ceph_decode_32_safe() on the following name length implicitly verifies that the previous value did not run past the blob end. The final attribute has no successor, so its decoded value length is never checked against the blob bounds. A malicious or compromised metadata server can set the last attribute's value length larger than the bytes actually present in the blob. The blob is a dedicated kvmalloc() allocation sized to the wire length (ceph_buffer_new() in ceph_fill_inode()). __set_xattr() records the oversized length in xattr->val_len verbatim, and a later getxattr(2) runs memcpy(value, xattr->val, xattr->val_len) into a user-supplied buffer, copying bytes past the end of the allocation back to user space. Impact: a malicious metadata server discloses adjacent kernel heap bytes to a local user via getxattr(2) on a CephFS file. Add the missing ceph_decode_need() so an out-of-bounds value length on the final attribute fails the decode and returns -EIO instead of being stored.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/848b80ca6b410f350d08b8ac19a00ef88223f2ea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01e3f19c301d492e12f16b3b463ac14d7cf3ebe7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb0cd79ae80476d1bc06bd9678484b6736f19588
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61f085cb8976c9cebc90e1a8933e4cc1ad8b0fce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38be2f3c41ecaba58bb92dc16603e09ba9fd64f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd356310b1660215f9a3626580bf8b363ef981e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b12b3320c81fd72ab36388fb2445fec9c3038f10
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68d541754d6cd3bb98d1fd8314f57e5eb533557d
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H | Linux |
| CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H | NVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-76561
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-89649
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1375 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1289 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1253 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < 848b80ca6b410f350d08b8ac19a00ef88223f2ea ; affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < 01e3f19c301d492e12f16b3b463ac14d7cf3ebe7 ; affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < cb0cd79ae80476d1bc06bd9678484b6736f19588 ; affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < 61f085cb8976c9cebc90e1a8933e4cc1ad8b0fce ; affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < 38be2f3c41ecaba58bb92dc16603e09ba9fd64f1 ; affected 355da1eb7a1f91c276b991764e951bbcd8047599 < 1dd356310b1660215f9a3626580bf8b363ef981e |
| Linux · Linux | affected 2.6.34 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.34 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.* |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |