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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89718"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:31.443Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:29.238Z"
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-2026-89718"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89718.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89718"
title: "zram: fix out-of-bounds access in writeback_store()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nzram: fix out-of-bounds access in writeback_store()\n\nPatch series \"zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization\".\n\nBoth writeback_store() and read_block_state() derive their table scan\nbounds from zram-\u003edisksize before acquiring dev_lock.  If the device is\nreset and reinitialized with a smaller disksize between that read and lock\nacquisition, the bound can describe the old table while the scan operates\non the new one.  This can lead to out-of-bounds slot accesses.\n\nMove both bound calculations under dev_lock so each bound remains\nconsistent with the table throughout its scan.  Keep the fixes separate\nbecause the affected interfaces originate from different commits and can\nbe backported independently.\n\n\nThis patch (of 2):\n\nwriteback_store() calculates the table scan bounds before taking dev_lock.\nA reset followed by reconfiguration with a smaller disksize can therefore\nreplace zram-\u003etable while writeback_store() is waiting for the lock.  Once\nit acquires the lock, it sees an initialized device but scans the new\ntable using the old upper bound, resulting in an out-of-bounds access.\n\nCalculate the number of pages while holding dev_lock so the scan bound\nmatches the table protected by the lock."
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