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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89787" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T08:48:24.403Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:40.961Z" 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-2026-89787" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89787.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89787" title: "ext4: check dir entry fits before reading the hash trailer in ext4_search_dir()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: check dir entry fits before reading the hash trailer in ext4_search_dir()\n\nFor casefolded encrypted directories ext4 stores an 8-byte hash trailer\nafter the name (EXT4_DIRENT_HASHES()), at an offset derived from\nde-\u003ename_len. On the sb_no_casefold_compat_fallback() path ext4_match()\nreads that trailer, but ext4_search_dir()'s by-hand pre-check only tests\nde-\u003ename + de-\u003ename_len \u003c= dlimit, which proves the name fits, not the\nrounded trailer. A crafted entry whose name ends at the block boundary\npasses the check while EXT4_DIRENT_HASHES(de) lands past the block end,\nso ext4_match() reads out of bounds on an ordinary lookup. KASAN reports\nit as a use-after-free when the page after the directory block holds a\nfreed object:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_match (fs/ext4/namei.c:1435)\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff888010458000 by task exploit\n Call Trace:\n ext4_match (fs/ext4/namei.c:1435)\n ext4_search_dir (fs/ext4/namei.c:1470)\n __ext4_find_entry (fs/ext4/namei.c:1268 fs/ext4/namei.c:1632)\n ext4_lookup (fs/ext4/namei.c:1703 fs/ext4/namei.c:1769)\n ...\n filename_lookup (fs/namei.c:2842)\n vfs_statx (fs/stat.c:353)\n __do_sys_newfstatat (fs/stat.c:538)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n\nRequire, for hash-in-dirent directories, that the whole entry including\nthe rounded trailer fits before calling ext4_match(). This is the same\nbound ext4_check_dir_entry() already enforces via ext4_dir_rec_len(), so\nno well-formed entry is rejected. The other caller, ext4_find_dest_de(),\nruns ext4_check_dir_entry() first and is unaffected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d20106c536b73c4a8a02652dc85e35898baebf7"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61a395967de06edba58760e81907a272db749faa"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e94676a08af6312aa72d8a981232b281f9bcfcf5"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8c184bec24b5a00ae96d704856d935eaded1685"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3933884bc3102898b458c53fbd1ac52eb9cdb8a4"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83663c0b739480c00cfe785675db87520ec484ed"},{"version":"471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7e6b863d298f56522d0d08554bbea7f142e6588"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"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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