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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97926" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:44.197Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:53.241Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97926" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97926.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97926" title: "ufs: validate cylinder group metadata before caching it" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nufs: validate cylinder group metadata before caching it\n\nufs_read_cylinder() copies the cylinder group index and the rotor\npositions straight from the on-disk group and caches them without any\ncheck:\n\n\tucpi-\u003ec_cgx = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg-\u003ecg_cgx);\n\tucpi-\u003ec_rotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg-\u003ecg_rotor);\n\tucpi-\u003ec_frotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg-\u003ecg_frotor);\n\tucpi-\u003ec_irotor = fs32_to_cpu(sb, ucg-\u003ecg_irotor);\n\nThey are then used as indices during allocation and free:\n\n - c_cgx indexes the cylinder summary array as\n UFS_SB(sb)-\u003efs_cs(ucpi-\u003ec_cgx), so a value past s_ncg writes a 32\n bit count outside the s_csp allocation.\n\n - c_frotor becomes a bitmap scan start, start = c_frotor \u003e\u003e 3, and\n then length = ((s_fpg + 7) \u003e\u003e 3) - start. A start beyond the block\n bitmap wraps the unsigned length to a huge value, so ubh_scanc()\n walks far past the cylinder group buffers. c_irotor drives the\n inode bitmap the same way.\n\nA crafted image can set any of these freely, turning an ordinary\nallocation into an out of bounds access.\n\nReject a cylinder group whose recorded index does not match the group\nbeing read, or whose rotors fall outside the group, before the metadata\nis cached. Valid filesystems keep cg_cgx equal to the group number and\nthe rotors within the group, so only malformed images are rejected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88cccb6beba136b73f0caf80e59457e1b3c0ca1e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f560a9e33365c460827c735fd86435f9213f1aed"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4c5cc9688c3e69d07d888853388549ae26c0521"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58c0c414b2b8d099d33da494a354fa836ca6c10b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5902a95066883cf96fa15b2680694fc5dd0c7d11"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87b12dc360a002eb2d498aa4f01e84347019612d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abde9eb33106850dfa367ad3965d3588bb8558d5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9d263be26806d388129fab8c6904bed197fc6af"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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