CVE-2026-52955
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CVE-2026-52955 is a critical-severity vulnerability rated 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode() A message of type CEPH_MSG_OSD_MAP containing a crush map with at least one bucket has two fields holding the bucket algorithm. If the values in these two fields differ, an out-of-bounds access can occur. EPSS estimates a 0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode() A message of type CEPH_MSG_OSD_MAP containing a crush map with at least one bucket has two fields holding the bucket algorithm. If the values in these two fields differ, an out-of-bounds access can occur. This is the case because the first algorithm field (alg) is used to allocate the correct amount of memory for a bucket of this type, while the second algorithm field inside the bucket (b->alg) is used in the subsequent processing. This patch fixes the issue by adding a check that compares alg and b->alg and aborts the processing in case they differ. Furthermore, b->alg is set to 0 in this case, because the destruction of the crush map also uses this field to determine the bucket type, which can again result in an out-of-bounds access when trying to free the memory pointed to by the fields of the bucket. To correctly free the memory allocated for the bucket in such a case, the corresponding call to kfree is moved from the algorithm-specific crush_destroy_bucket functions to the generic crush_destroy_bucket().
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 2.6.34.1, < 5.10.258 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 5.11, < 5.15.209 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 5.16, < 6.1.175 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.6.141 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.7, < 6.12.91 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.13, < 6.18.33 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | >= 6.19, < 7.0.10 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | 2.6.34 | — |
| Linux | Linux Kernel | 7.1 | Rc1 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52955Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492328Third Party Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-52955.jsonThird Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
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- Status
- Analyzed
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