# 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-2026-89720"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:32.923Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:33.033Z"
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-2026-89720"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89720.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89720"
title: "ubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check\n\nubifs_sb_verify_signature() bounds the on-disk ubifs_sig_node-\u003elen field\nbefore handing the signature payload to verify_pkcs7_signature(), but the\ncheck has the wrong sign:\n\n\tif (le32_to_cpu(signode-\u003elen) \u003e snod-\u003elen + sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node))\n\nThe signature bytes start sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node) (UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ,\n64 bytes) into the node, so the payload is at most\n\n\tsnod-\u003elen - sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node)\n\nbytes long. Adding the header size instead of subtracting it accepts a\ndeclared length up to 2 * UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ larger than the node actually\nholds -- past the end of c-\u003esbuf, which is vmalloc(c-\u003eleb_size).\nverify_pkcs7_signature() -\u003e pkcs7_parse_message() -\u003e asn1_ber_decoder()\nis then handed that inflated length and reads beyond the allocation while\nwalking the DER headers. The node length comes straight from the mounted\nimage, so a crafted signed UBIFS image reaches this via\nubifs_read_superblock() before the signature is cryptographically checked.\n\nsnod-\u003elen is guaranteed to be \u003e= UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ by the node scanner\n(c-\u003eranges[UBIFS_SIG_NODE].min_len == UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ), so the corrected\nsubtraction cannot underflow. Legitimately signed images are unaffected: a\ncorrect superblock never declares a signature longer than the node it is\nembedded in."
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