# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46023"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:28.756Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:01.369Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46023"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46023.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46023"
title: "dm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log()\n\nThe argument count calculation in create_dirty_log() performs\n`*args_used = 2 + param_count` before validating against argc. When a\nuser provides a param_count close to UINT_MAX via the device mapper\ntable string, this unsigned addition wraps around to a small value,\ncausing the subsequent `argc \u003c *args_used` check to be bypassed.\n\nThe overflowed param_count is then passed as argc to dm_dirty_log_create(),\nwhere it can cause out-of-bounds reads on the argv array.\n\nFix by comparing param_count against argc - 2 before performing the\naddition, following the same pattern used by parse_features() in the\nsame file. Since argc \u003e= 2 is already guaranteed, the subtraction is\nsafe."
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