CVE-2026-89490: vulnerability in Linux
ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
In ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the directory cookie position is
rebuilt with
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;
`ctx->pos` is loff_t (signed 64-bit), while `sb->s_blocksize` is
unsigned long. On 32-bit kernels unsigned long is 32-bit, so the mask
~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)
is computed as a 32-bit unsigned value (e.g. 0xfffff000 for a 4 KiB
block size). In the AND expression with the 64-bit `ctx->pos`, that
unsigned operand is zero-extended to 64 bits per the usual arithmetic
conversions, yielding 0x00000000fffff000. The high 32 bits of
`ctx->pos` are silently cleared, even though directory size is
allowed to exceed 4 GiB.
When readdir() crosses the 4 GiB boundary on a 32-bit kernel the
position is reset back into the first 4 GiB block, making the
re-validation path re-enumerate already-returned dirents indefinitely.
This is ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the extent-list readdir path taken
for all non-inline directories, so a directory large enough to cross
4 GiB reaches it.
This is the same class of bug that commit 3dce5bb82c97 ("exfat: Fix
bitwise operation having different size") fixed in exfat, and the
fix mirrors the equivalent ext4 fix in this series. Cast the operand
to loff_t so the mask is 64-bit before the AND:
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;
64-bit kernels are unaffected.
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1001fb3b69a11eaa0dc7c7428f6edfa48b88997ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ae7029823ae4c91664cb32eec7fb8dd5e1a337ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94569154ba49f5f85645d2019c8e206213d8404ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63308ab426f3a3c7e33b02c150ea59054620261https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b53e2b271eeb6040c2a4a78230c570dc41cdcfa4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0c165487a2ea5a37ddcdab4259157b7a527129chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c28dc3407937aa8f225942538cd585c9b28ea65ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9dd5cad8d09110ddff2db1fe756aae93c7552ff