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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89492"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:44.137Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:37.117Z"
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-2026-89492"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89492.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89492"
title: "ocfs2: validate directory-index entry counts when reading metadata"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: validate directory-index entry counts when reading metadata\n\nocfs2_validate_dx_leaf() and ocfs2_validate_dx_root() check the ECC and\nsignature of an indexed-directory block before it reaches higher-level\ncallers, but neither validator bounds the ocfs2_dx_entry_list counts\nagainst the capacity of the block that holds them.\n\nocfs2_dx_dir_search() then walks\n\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c le16_to_cpu(entry_list-\u003ede_num_used); i++)\n\t\tdx_entry = &entry_list-\u003ede_entries[i];\n\nover de_num_used entries with no bounds check.  entry_list is either\ndx_leaf-\u003edl_list (from ocfs2_read_dx_leaf) or, for an inline root,\ndx_root-\u003edr_entries.  A crafted on-disk image can set de_num_used (and\nde_count, which is the __counted_by_le() bound of de_entries) to 0xffff\nand make the walk read far past the end of the 4KB metadata block, giving\na slab out-of-bounds read reachable from any path lookup, stat() or open()\non an indexed directory once the image is mounted.\n\nCommit 775c17386a6f (\"ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during\nblock read\") already bounds dr_list for the non-inline dx_root, but left\nthe inline dr_entries path and the dx_leaf dl_list unchecked.  Add the\nsame read-time validation for both entry lists: de_count must equal the\ncapacity of the block (ocfs2_dx_entries_per_leaf()/per_root()) and\nde_num_used must not exceed de_count, rejecting corrupted metadata with\n-EFSCORRUPTED before ocfs2_dx_dir_search() can walk an out-of-range entry\narray.\n\nde_count is always written as exactly the block capacity when a leaf or\ninline root is formatted, so the equality check does not reject any valid\nimage.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)."
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