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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64318" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:47.690Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:53:18.783Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64318" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64318.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64318" title: "partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npartitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array\n\naix_partition() reads the physical volume descriptor into a fixed-size\nstruct pvd and then scans its physical-partition-extent array:\n\n\tint numpps = be16_to_cpu(pvd-\u003epp_count);\n\t...\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c numpps; i += 1) {\n\t\tstruct ppe *p = pvd-\u003eppe + i;\n\t\t...\n\t\tlp_ix = be16_to_cpu(p-\u003elp_ix);\n\npvd points at a single kmalloc()'d struct pvd whose ppe[] member holds a\nfixed ARRAY_SIZE(pvd-\u003eppe) (1016) entries, but the loop runs up to the\non-disk pp_count. pp_count is an unvalidated __be16 read straight from\nthe descriptor, so a crafted AIX image with pp_count larger than 1016\ndrives the loop to read pvd-\u003eppe[i] past the end of the allocation (up\nto 65535 entries, ~2 MB out of bounds).\n\nThe partition scan runs without mounting anything, when a block device\nwith a crafted AIX/IBM partition table appears (an attacker-supplied\nimage attached with losetup -P, or a device auto-scanned by udev), via\nmsdos_partition() -\u003e aix_partition().\n\nClamp the scan to the number of entries the ppe[] array can hold." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09861651617ba0fec089e8b9477439e68398c110"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5eacdb1967378f5e5591cd27a2d8cdee2df1a599"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5e9c09309e18fd9839ad007c238120353ca0cc4"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd94a779020f2ecc8b2607f4c20b34acb1763b9a"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4671bb74bba05fdd4acf670a35758c29e8c97b83"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce93228e2193a17d2c58b656e439bb39fe5c3af8"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44f37ee92fdcd377c41bdf6a31cdd8cc7d4c410e"},{"version":"6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2dc0bfd2fe355fb930de63c2f2eb8ced8570c579"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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