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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53041" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:47.501Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:32:49.657Z" 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-2026-53041" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53041.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53041" title: "ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full\n\n[BUG]\nIf an OCFS2 inode has both inline and block-based xattrs, listxattr()\ncan return a size larger than the caller's buffer when the inline names\nconsume that buffer exactly.\n\nkernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nRIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0xb7/0xd0 mm/usercopy.c:102\nCall Trace:\n __check_heap_object+0xe3/0x120 mm/slub.c:8243\n check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:196 [inline]\n __check_object_size mm/usercopy.c:250 [inline]\n __check_object_size+0x5c5/0x780 mm/usercopy.c:215\n check_object_size include/linux/ucopysize.h:22 [inline]\n check_copy_size include/linux/ucopysize.h:59 [inline]\n copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:219 [inline]\n listxattr+0xb0/0x170 fs/xattr.c:926\n filename_listxattr fs/xattr.c:958 [inline]\n path_listxattrat+0x137/0x320 fs/xattr.c:988\n __do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:1001 [inline]\n __se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:998 [inline]\n __x64_sys_listxattr+0x7f/0xd0 fs/xattr.c:998\n ...\n\n[CAUSE]\nCommit 936b8834366e (\"ocfs2: Refactor xattr list and remove\nocfs2_xattr_handler().\") replaced the old per-handler list accounting\nwith ocfs2_xattr_list_entry(), but it kept using size == 0 to detect\nprobe mode.\n\nThat assumption stops being true once ocfs2_listxattr() finishes the\ninline-xattr pass. If the inline names fill the caller buffer exactly,\nthe block-xattr pass runs with a non-NULL buffer and a remaining size of\nzero. ocfs2_xattr_list_entry() then skips the bounds check, keeps\ncounting block names, and returns a positive size larger than the\nsupplied buffer.\n\n[FIX]\nDetect probe mode by testing whether the destination buffer pointer is\nNULL instead of whether the remaining size is zero.\n\nThat restores the pre-refactor behavior and matches the OCFS2 getxattr\nhelpers. Once the remaining buffer reaches zero while more names are\nleft, the block-xattr pass now returns -ERANGE instead of reporting a\nsize larger than the allocated list buffer." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a35a1c2b170b5b578b1b3fecb95694796552af9a"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2323084c17370304f49c84b354fe7b3edbb264fe"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f702b00b8124c5d3525f19172934544826a114d"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d919b905939eda93393e3572900ff70dbad2b47f"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46e66fefb83811958127bc9ad736983ec629d82b"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2685df8577a38d83b367c8cf52eda9dc286959ff"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50033ec1350fe68abdc63b950ced7ae57364b77a"},{"version":"936b8834366ec05f2a6993f73afd8348cac9718e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d12f558e6200b3f47dbef9331ed6d115d2410e59"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.28","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.28"},{"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":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","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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