# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80536"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:11.584Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:25.114Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80536"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80536.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80536"
title: "xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap\n\nxlog_recover_do_reg_buffer() replays each dirty region described by a\nbuffer log item's bitmap into the buffer read for that item:\n\n\tmemcpy(xfs_buf_offset(bp, (uint)bit \u003c\u003c XFS_BLF_SHIFT),\n\t\titem-\u003eri_buf[i].iov_base,\n\t\tnbits \u003c\u003c XFS_BLF_SHIFT);\n\nThe destination offset (bit/nbits, from the logged dirty bitmap) and the\nbuffer size (from the logged blf_len) are both attacker-controlled and\notherwise unrelated, yet the only thing bounding the copy is an ASSERT(),\nwhich compiles away on production kernels. A crafted image logging a\nsmall blf_len together with a bitmap bit past the end of that buffer\ndrives the memcpy() past the buffer's allocation, corrupting adjacent\nkernel heap during mount-time log recovery. This is reachable by anyone\nwho can get a crafted image mounted -- the malicious-filesystem threat\nmodel XFS already guards against elsewhere.\n\nTurn the ASSERT() into a real XFS_IS_CORRUPT() check that aborts recovery\nof the buffer with -EFSCORRUPTED, consistent with the validate-and-fail\nidiom already used in xlog_recover_do_inode_buffer() and\nxfs_dquot_item_recover.c. xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer() therefore becomes\nSTATIC int and its three callers propagate the error.\n\nFound and confirmed with KASAN on a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n build: the crafted\nimage trips a slab-out-of-bounds write before this change and fails\nrecovery cleanly with -EFSCORRUPTED after it."
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