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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93201"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:22.392Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:13.558Z"
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-2026-93201"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93201.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93201"
title: "dm-pcache: validate seg_id fields from persistent memory"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-pcache: validate seg_id fields from persistent memory\n\ncache_pos_decode(), cache_key_decode() and the last-kset branches of\ncache_replay(), the writeback worker and the GC worker take a cache\nsegment id from the cache device metadata and index cache-\u003esegments[]\nwith it without checking it against cache-\u003en_segs. That metadata is only\nCRC-protected with a fixed public seed, so whoever supplies the cache\ndevice on a table load (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) controls the id; an out-of-range\nvalue forms a wild pcache_cache_segment pointer that is dereferenced and\nwritten through -- an out-of-bounds read and write driven by on-disk data.\n\nAdd cache_seg_id_valid() and reject an out-of-range id at each decode\nsite, failing the operation with -EIO instead of indexing past the array.\nBound the id against the initialized-segment count (cache_info.n_segs)\nrather than the physical device total. A forged cache_info.n_segs below\nseg_num otherwise leaves segments[cache_info.n_segs..seg_num) as zeroed\nstructs whose data pointer is NULL, so a forged id in that window would\nstill be dereferenced. A later patch guarantees cache_info.n_segs \u003c=\nseg_num, and a driver-created cache sets the two equal, so valid images\nare unaffected."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96d4b275281b45aacd0f0510fa8bec85d9f7dc5a"},{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4bf8af5e7d7db4c5e179e15017da55857761ac4"},{"version":"1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90c990a68460d7b5720e5634cf650eccdf0f4098"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.57","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"}]

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