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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68082" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-08T09:17:45.394Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:44.160Z" 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-2026-68082" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68082.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68082" title: "libceph: fix two unsafe bare decodes in decode_lockers()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: fix two unsafe bare decodes in decode_lockers()\n\ndecode_lockers() in cls_lock_client.c contains two bare decode operations\nthat allow a malicious or compromised OSD to trigger slab-out-of-bounds\nreads:\n\n1. ceph_decode_32(p) at the num_lockers field has no preceding bounds\n check. ceph_start_decoding() accepts struct_len=0 as valid -- the\n internal ceph_decode_need(p, end, 0, bad) always passes -- so when an\n OSD sends struct_len=0, ceph_start_decoding() returns success with\n p == end. The immediately following bare ceph_decode_32(p) then reads\n 4 bytes past the validated buffer boundary. The garbage value is\n passed directly to kzalloc_objs() as the locker count.\n\n The sibling function decode_watchers() in osd_client.c already uses\n ceph_decode_32_safe() after its own ceph_start_decoding() call.\n decode_lockers() was the only site using the bare variant.\n\n2. ceph_decode_8(p) after the decode_locker() loop has no preceding\n bounds check. If an OSD crafts num_lockers such that the loop\n advances p exactly to end, the subsequent bare ceph_decode_8(p) reads\n one byte past the validated buffer boundary. The result is passed\n directly into *type, which is used as a lock type discriminator by\n callers, giving an OSD-controlled one-byte OOB read with direct\n influence over the lock type field.\n\nFix both by replacing bare operations with their safe variants:\n ceph_decode_32(p) -\u003e ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, *num_lockers,\n err_inval)\n ceph_decode_8(p) -\u003e ceph_decode_8_safe(p, end, *type,\n err_free_lockers)\n\nThe goto targets differ intentionally:\n err_inval: is a new label returning -EINVAL directly. It is used for\n the pre-allocation failure path where *lockers is not yet allocated\n and must not be passed to ceph_free_lockers().\n\n err_free_lockers: is the existing label. It is used for the\n post-allocation failure path where *lockers is allocated and must\n be freed.\n\nret is set to -EINVAL before ceph_decode_8_safe() so that\nerr_free_lockers returns the correct error code on bounds violation.\nWithout this, err_free_lockers would return a stale ret value (0 from\nthe successful decode_locker() loop), silently swallowing the error.\n\n-EINVAL is correct for both failure paths. The data received from the\nOSD is structurally malformed. -ENOMEM would misrepresent the failure\nclass to callers and to stable@ backporters triaging error paths.\n\nAttacker model: a malicious or compromised OSD in a multi-tenant Ceph\ndeployment can trigger this against any kernel client that issues the\nlock.get_info class method (e.g. during RBD exclusive lock acquisition).\n\n[ idryomov: trim changelog, formatting ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8ade01170a27d8ede0d761c255268af81e417f8"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"001835c599899ef1bd3506a815110a6374451554"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c422364acd93d7da1dfc27d6b54635a269653a1"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02430f6f729b297e803d0605871f0a670b4eafd6"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57ba829804fe6d34bbac3b826c4b15c1caa54862"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89df5d71f83f8e2781286798fd8ae5e42cf5f1a7"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a54be593d0b749161b08a1e56189b2cb9114267a"},{"version":"d4ed4a530562881cc5225050e42d96034f405aae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a109a556115271ca7896dcda7b4b7e45e156c227"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.46","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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