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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46169" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:24.361Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-19T11:59:47.129Z" 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-2026-46169" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46169.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46169" title: "hfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size\n\nSyzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_strcasecmp(). The\nroot cause is that hfs_brec_read() doesn't validate that the on-disk\nrecord size matches the expected size for the record type being read.\n\nWhen mounting a corrupted filesystem, hfs_brec_read() may read less data\nthan expected. For example, when reading a catalog thread record, the\ndebug output showed:\n\n HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: rec_len=520, fd-\u003eentrylength=26\n HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: WARNING - entrylength (26) \u003c rec_len (520) - PARTIAL READ!\n\nhfs_brec_read() only validates that entrylength is not greater than the\nbuffer size, but doesn't check if it's less than expected. It successfully\nreads 26 bytes into a 520-byte structure and returns success, leaving 494\nbytes uninitialized.\n\nThis uninitialized data in tmp.thread.nodeName then gets copied by\nhfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() and used by hfsplus_strcasecmp(), triggering\nthe KMSAN warning when the uninitialized bytes are used as array indices\nin case_fold().\n\nFix by introducing hfsplus_brec_read_cat() wrapper that:\n1. Calls hfs_brec_read() to read the data\n2. Validates the record size based on the type field:\n - Fixed size for folder and file records\n - Variable size for thread records (depends on string length)\n3. Returns -EIO if size doesn't match expected\n\nFor thread records, check against HFSPLUS_MIN_THREAD_SZ before reading\nnodeName.length to avoid reading uninitialized data at call sites that\ndon't zero-initialize the entry structure.\n\nAlso initialize the tmp variable in hfsplus_find_cat() as defensive\nprogramming to ensure no uninitialized data even if validation is\nbypassed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3003dbf62d151d47a6b90f71655292a51a05f244"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8be69532e399eec9d9d990f6958b4ff2383b19b3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bc337697c66db2e2a4a94f0509c282c1a014b86"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61a790974ff7e533acbceca06c7d02f22bf96d4d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c91bbd6193c70a02c50c22e0fb1f60c3c5bd053a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a420904450962a562ad053a41a53a27755021b48"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93e8d613f1a01b6637f387cc93f184cf7fb881d6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6b592275aeff184aa82fcf6abccd833fb71b393"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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