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CVE-2026-46169

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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hfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_strcasecmp(). The root cause is that hfs_brec_read() doesn't validate that the on-disk record size matches the expected size for the record type being read. When mounting a corrupted filesystem, hfs_brec_read() may read less data than expected. For example, when reading a catalog thread record, the debug output showed: HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: rec_len=520, fd->entrylength=26 HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: WARNING - entrylength (26) < rec_len (520) - PARTIAL READ! hfs_brec_read() only validates that entrylength is not greater than the buffer size, but doesn't check if it's less than expected. It successfully reads 26 bytes into a 520-byte structure and returns success, leaving 494 bytes uninitialized. This uninitialized data in tmp.thread.nodeName then gets copied by hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() and used by hfsplus_strcasecmp(), triggering the KMSAN warning when the uninitialized bytes are used as array indices in case_fold(). Fix by introducing hfsplus_brec_read_cat() wrapper that: 1. Calls hfs_brec_read() to read the data 2. Validates the record size based on the type field: - Fixed size for folder and file records - Variable size for thread records (depends on string length) 3. Returns -EIO if size doesn't match expected For thread records, check against HFSPLUS_MIN_THREAD_SZ before reading nodeName.length to avoid reading uninitialized data at call sites that don't zero-initialize the entry structure. Also initialize the tmp variable in hfsplus_find_cat() as defensive programming to ensure no uninitialized data even if validation is bypassed.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit3003dbf62d151d47a6b90f71655292a51a05f244UnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit8be69532e399eec9d9d990f6958b4ff2383b19b3UnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit3bc337697c66db2e2a4a94f0509c282c1a014b86UnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit61a790974ff7e533acbceca06c7d02f22bf96d4dUnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgitc91bbd6193c70a02c50c22e0fb1f60c3c5bd053aUnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgita420904450962a562ad053a41a53a27755021b48UnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit93e8d613f1a01b6637f387cc93f184cf7fb881d6UnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgitb6b592275aeff184aa82fcf6abccd833fb71b393UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.12affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.12UnavailableNone listed
5.10.259unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.210unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.176unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.140unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.88unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.30unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.0.7unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.0.*None listed
7.1unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed