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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64567" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:08:06.015Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:42.223Z" 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-2026-64567" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64567.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64567" title: "btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages\n\nWhen loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes\nnum_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk\nbtrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key\nwith type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is\nvalidated before the load trusts it.\n\nThe load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current\none runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -\u003e io_ctl_map_page(), which\ndoes io_ctl-\u003epages[io_ctl-\u003eindex++]. But pages[] is allocated in\nio_ctl_init() from the cache inode's i_size, not from num_entries:\n\n\tnum_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);\n\tio_ctl-\u003epages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);\n\nSo if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl-\u003eindex\nruns off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because\nio_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once\nio_ctl-\u003eindex \u003e= io_ctl-\u003enum_pages; the read side just never had the same\ncheck.\n\nTo trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = \u003cN\u003e here), set num_entries\nin the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes\nthe tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and\npages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read\n65536 entries, io_ctl-\u003eindex walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the\narray:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58\n io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)\n __load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820)\n load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017)\n caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880)\n btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312)\n process_one_work\n worker_thread\n kthread\n ret_from_fork\n\nfree-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc()\nat line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds\nslot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad\nread turns into a GP fault.\n\nAdd the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry\nloop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now\nfails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds\nthe free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ded74c654a982dc8581a17b0caa7fcedb20de69"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9c38066b6446e83668c041702bb639b0ca49363"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"094734c7aaa2b36751dc32480a680a4952685e78"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33878ba25e2638bc0c61623d7a05c9ca2b74c039"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"404a0b986e0b6e79738fdf1f0ebbbc43b9acd2a2"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e1b2ca6b34939e70fb0785e8222b53cf060016f"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9fef131fa3f59b857217f522fa5ea430d1b707c"},{"version":"5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2d8d5647ed854e38f941741aea45b9eb15a6350"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.2"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","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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