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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89965"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:46.769Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:55:38.886Z"
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-2026-89965"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89965.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89965"
title: "nvdimm/btt: reject an arena whose nfree is below the lane count"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvdimm/btt: reject an arena whose nfree is below the lane count\n\nThe BTT info block's nfree field, the number of reserve free blocks, is\nread from the medium without validation.  btt_freelist_init() and\nbtt_rtt_init() size the per-lane freelist[] and rtt[] arrays by nfree,\nbut the I/O path indexes them by the lane from nd_region_acquire_lane(),\nwhich is bounded by nd_region-\u003enum_lanes (ND_MAX_LANES), not by nfree.\nA crafted or foreign arena whose nfree is below the lane count makes\nfreelist[lane]/rtt[lane] run past the allocation: an out-of-bounds write.\n\nbtt.rst documents the nlanes = min(nfree, num_cpus) invariant, which the\ncode does not currently honor: num_lanes is ND_MAX_LANES regardless of\nnfree.  Reject an arena whose nfree is below num_lanes at discovery,\nbefore the per-lane arrays are allocated, enforcing that invariant."
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