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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46294" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-08T15:46:21.401Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:21:25.925Z" 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-2026-46294" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46294.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46294" title: "dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing\n\nTony Asleson (using Claude) found a buffer overflow in dm-ioctl in the\nfunction retrieve_status:\n\n1. The code in retrieve_status checks that the output string fits into\n the output buffer and writes the output string there\n2. Then, the code aligns the \"outptr\" variable to the next 8-byte\n boundary:\n\toutptr = align_ptr(outptr);\n3. The alignment doesn't check overflow, so outptr could point past the\n buffer end\n4. The \"for\" loop is iterated again, it executes:\n\tremaining = len - (outptr - outbuf);\n5. If \"outptr\" points past \"outbuf + len\", the arithmetics wraps around\n and the variable \"remaining\" contains unusually high number\n6. With \"remaining\" being high, the code writes more data past the end of\n the buffer\n\nLuckily, this bug has no security implications because:\n1. Only root can issue device mapper ioctls\n2. The commonly used libraries that communicate with device mapper\n (libdevmapper and devicemapper-rs) use buffer size that is aligned to\n 8 bytes - thus, \"outptr = align_ptr(outptr)\" can't overshoot the input\n buffer and the bug can't happen accidentally" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8c5311237448f6ffeecc9aec2362e3692623668"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"448ee8fb79c26a26599ffa4b2adeb4322d3d3d8c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"526ff9126a0ae087b65726e1faf31114c718020d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0b0b09d9840838ae77ccdd6a62de0daef4e6e0a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d271631023cbe1cbe7c31a0275ab797883be6e0a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5af6a879e915ae7bcd83695c316ebb32e1c61bc2"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8daa6c708ef524089ae43f2aed9190acb26d7df8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fa49cc884f6496a915c35621ba4da35649bf159"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","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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