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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89490" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:42.808Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:47:41.930Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89490" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89490.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89490" title: "ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels\n\nIn ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the directory cookie position is\nrebuilt with\n\n\tctx-\u003epos = (ctx-\u003epos & ~(sb-\u003es_blocksize - 1)) | offset;\n\n`ctx-\u003epos` is loff_t (signed 64-bit), while `sb-\u003es_blocksize` is\nunsigned long. On 32-bit kernels unsigned long is 32-bit, so the mask\n\n\t~(sb-\u003es_blocksize - 1)\n\nis computed as a 32-bit unsigned value (e.g. 0xfffff000 for a 4 KiB\nblock size). In the AND expression with the 64-bit `ctx-\u003epos`, that\nunsigned operand is zero-extended to 64 bits per the usual arithmetic\nconversions, yielding 0x00000000fffff000. The high 32 bits of\n`ctx-\u003epos` are silently cleared, even though directory size is\nallowed to exceed 4 GiB.\n\nWhen readdir() crosses the 4 GiB boundary on a 32-bit kernel the\nposition is reset back into the first 4 GiB block, making the\nre-validation path re-enumerate already-returned dirents indefinitely.\n\nThis is ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the extent-list readdir path taken\nfor all non-inline directories, so a directory large enough to cross\n4 GiB reaches it.\n\nThis is the same class of bug that commit 3dce5bb82c97 (\"exfat: Fix\nbitwise operation having different size\") fixed in exfat, and the\nfix mirrors the equivalent ext4 fix in this series. Cast the operand\nto loff_t so the mask is 64-bit before the AND:\n\n\tctx-\u003epos = (ctx-\u003epos & ~((loff_t)sb-\u003es_blocksize - 1)) | offset;\n\n64-bit kernels are unaffected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c28dc3407937aa8f225942538cd585c9b28ea65a"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94569154ba49f5f85645d2019c8e206213d8404e"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ae7029823ae4c91664cb32eec7fb8dd5e1a337a"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9dd5cad8d09110ddff2db1fe756aae93c7552ff"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1001fb3b69a11eaa0dc7c7428f6edfa48b88997a"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0c165487a2ea5a37ddcdab4259157b7a527129c"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b53e2b271eeb6040c2a4a78230c570dc41cdcfa4"},{"version":"ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a63308ab426f3a3c7e33b02c150ea59054620261"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.16"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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