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Tracker / CVE-2026-43359

CVE-2026-43359

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.12 → 6.1.167
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.19
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.9
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.130
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.78

Analysis

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