CVE-2026-93813: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen
[BUG]
A crafted btrfs image can trigger the following crash:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffd1dc42884000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 1034 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.1.0-rc4-custom+ #383 PREEMPT(full) 46af0a92938a63be7132e0dfd71e62327c51d5c2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x10
Call Trace:
<TASK>
read_extent_buffer+0xe4/0x100 [btrfs 3cf0785dd58fec8c5ff84633b772f17ce1f92a8f]
btrfs_get_name+0x15e/0x1e0 [btrfs 3cf0785dd58fec8c5ff84633b772f17ce1f92a8f]
reconnect_path+0x165/0x390
exportfs_decode_fh_raw+0x337/0x400
? drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xb0/0xb0
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x10
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[CAUSE]
TThe crafted image has the following corrupted INODE_REF item:
item 9 key (258 INODE_REF 257) itemoff 11544 itemsize 4106
index 2 namelen 4096 name: d\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000
The itemsize matches the namelen, but the namelen is 4096, way larger
than normal name length limit (BTRFS_NAME_LEN, 255).
Meanwhile the memory of the @name is only 255 byte sized, this will cause
out-of-boundary access, and cause the above crash.
[FIX]
Add extra namelen verification for INODE_REF, just like what we have
done in ROOT_REF checks.
Now the crafted image can be rejected gracefully:
BTRFS critical (device dm-2): corrupt leaf: root=5 block=30572544 slot=14 ino=259, invalid inode ref name length, has 4096 expect [1, 255]
BTRFS error (device dm-2): read time tree block corruption detected on logical 30572544 mirror 2
[ Rebase, add a Link: tag, add an simple cause analyze ]
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dc22abc21f5892406c09202fa2627196cc96967https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cb41f07685f88ec724a375883bb0c731db8f6ebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/509d6a4d889e425f305461d8323a7b39ca6c121chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60078a3e25c09d9d8fba828b0d81bb33e449a1b2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f75c19892263bc0555fba922aefe103e841e86dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeddee090b834a7d4b6a8214d2e3739e64c7a338