# 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-2026-80962"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:28.500Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:46.216Z"
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-2026-80962"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80962.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80962"
title: "dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info\n\ncache_segs_init() iterates cache_info-\u003en_segs times indexing\ncache-\u003esegments[], which is sized to the cache device geometry, and\nget_seg_id() takes each segment id from the on-media cache_info and the\nper-segment next_seg link. Both come from cache device metadata that is\nonly CRC-protected with a fixed public seed, so whoever supplies the\ncache device on a table load (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) controls them: an oversized\nn_segs or an out-of-range id drives an out-of-bounds access of\ncache-\u003esegments[] and a wild CACHE_DEV_SEGMENT() pointer into the device\nmapping -- an out-of-bounds read and write from on-disk data.\n\nReject an n_segs that exceeds the device segment count and a segment id\nthat is out of range before either is used. Valid metadata is unaffected."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab5dcde6fa96bc115b85f3621c60e39c66229a90"},{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e19172089ec81132a8a48e802b1034a744209f4"},{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32d1809da31094ef76fd98dc1f1a8b55ca1295dd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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