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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89786" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T08:48:23.730Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:39.655Z" 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-2026-89786" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89786.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89786" title: "ext4: fix out-of-bounds read in ext4_read_inline_dir()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix out-of-bounds read in ext4_read_inline_dir()\n\next4_read_inline_dir() can read a dirent header past the end of its inline\nbuffer, triggering a slab-out-of-bounds read during getdents64():\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __ext4_check_dir_entry\n Read of size 2 at addr ffff88800f3dd23c by task exploit/148\n ...\n __ext4_check_dir_entry\n ext4_read_inline_dir\n iterate_dir\n\nThe dirent payload lives in a buffer of exactly inline_size bytes:\n\n\tdir_buf = kmalloc(inline_size, GFP_NOFS);\n\nbut iteration runs in a position space extra_offset bytes larger\n(extra_size = extra_offset + inline_size) so the synthetic \".\" and \"..\"\nland at their block-dir offsets. A dirent is formed at \"dir_buf + pos -\nextra_offset\", yet the ext4_check_dir_entry() length argument uses the\nlarger extra_size. A position whose dirent header would extend past\nextra_size is therefore accepted, and the rescan loop's rec_len probe and\next4_check_dir_entry() dereference de-\u003erec_len before the entry is rejected.\n\nReject a position whose minimum-size dirent header would not fit within\nextra_size before forming de, in both the rescan and main loops, and pass\ninline_size rather than extra_size to ext4_check_dir_entry() so the length\ncheck matches the physical buffer." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1e7c186555ad65554fd2f2b02f5a539aa35ae48"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5fd20d4e50dd6e460b3ea8e4396f8553d4526f8f"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a1dea633b724a1c042dbcdb1fed27f410916688"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b060861f662d4826dc700a1c3584243bb3474cfe"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6702c7da86d8cdb88d0fc57166286e115ffeb8c0"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36bf17bb90cdf7a623499b624b05acde4d2feef5"},{"version":"c4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9333cc809f0a89e001b814155a6cb8903a6274df"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"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":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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