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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53059" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:04.210Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-04T12:04:41.314Z" 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-2026-53059" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53059.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53059" title: "dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow\n\nThe local variable region_count in create_log_context() is declared as\nunsigned int (32-bit), but dm_sector_div_up() returns sector_t (64-bit).\nWhen a device-mapper target has a sufficiently large ti-\u003elen with a small\nregion_size, the division result can exceed UINT_MAX. The truncated\nvalue is then used to calculate bitset_size, causing clean_bits,\nsync_bits, and recovering_bits to be allocated far smaller than needed\nfor the actual number of regions.\n\nSubsequent log operations (log_set_bit, log_clear_bit, log_test_bit) use\nregion indices derived from the full untruncated region space, causing\nout-of-bounds writes to kernel heap memory allocated by vmalloc.\n\nThis can be reproduced by creating a mirror target whose region_count\noverflows 32 bits:\n\n dmsetup create bigzero --table '0 8589934594 zero'\n dmsetup create mymirror --table '0 8589934594 mirror \\\n core 2 2 nosync 2 /dev/mapper/bigzero 0 \\\n /dev/mapper/bigzero 0'\n\nThe status output confirms the truncation (sync_count=1 instead of\n4294967297, because 0x100000001 was truncated to 1):\n\n $ dmsetup status mymirror\n 0 8589934594 mirror 2 254:1 254:1 1/4294967297 ...\n\nThis leads to a kernel crash in core_in_sync:\n\n BUG: scheduling while atomic: (udev-worker)/9150/0x00000000\n RIP: 0010:core_in_sync+0x14/0x30 [dm_log]\n CR2: 0000000000000008\n Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!\n\nFix by widening the local region_count to sector_t and adding an\nexplicit overflow check before the value is assigned to lc-\u003eregion_count." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44ab8875ae4a2842bde2d756bed195d375e0debb"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"defe483e47173768c227532694dc78cb65db5f09"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ec74da927b4e171a6fc0e77b1188ba4d019af51"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4ac87567f86a55c3c92e9a5144dcd943a9772a1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12bd5b88e91a02785244ff1d20fb157e96e9cdc8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b455903eed4558982be0811f5b7f44f6bbc4ff57"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ec8323b9f0764a14d532b1ae9b87f8a9fecb867"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c20e36b7631d83e7535877f08af8b0af72c44b1a"}],"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":"6.6.141","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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