# 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-2026-80557"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:24.178Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:26.946Z"
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-2026-80557"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80557.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80557"
title: "libceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check\n\nceph_start_decoding() validates that struct_len bytes remain in the\nbuffer after the encoding header, but accepts struct_len=0 as valid:\nceph_decode_need(p, end, 0, bad) always passes. When a malicious or\ncompromised OSD sends an obj_list_watch_response_t reply with\nstruct_len=0, ceph_start_decoding() returns success with p == end,\nleaving zero bytes guaranteed for subsequent reads.\n\nThe immediately following ceph_decode_32(p) in decode_watchers() has\nno preceding bounds check. With p == end this is a 4-byte read past\nthe validated buffer boundary. The garbage value is then passed\ndirectly to kzalloc_objs() as the watcher count.\n\nThe sibling function decode_watcher() already uses the safe variants\n(ceph_decode_copy_safe, ceph_decode_64_safe, ceph_decode_skip_32)\nafter its own ceph_start_decoding() call. decode_watchers() is the\nonly site that uses the bare variant, confirming an oversight.\n\nFix by replacing ceph_decode_32(p) with ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end,\n*num_watchers, bad), consistent with the established pattern.\n\nAttacker model: a malicious or compromised OSD in a multi-tenant Ceph\ndeployment (e.g. cloud) can trigger this against any kernel client\nthat calls CEPH_OSD_OP_LIST_WATCHERS, without any further privileges\nbeyond OSD session establishment.\n\n[ idryomov: trim changelog ]"
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