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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98636"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:20:07.184Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:06.005Z"
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-2026-98636"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98636.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98636"
title: "squashfs: Add dictionary size range check to prevent shift-out-of-bounds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsquashfs: Add dictionary size range check to prevent shift-out-of-bounds\n\nWhen an abnormal SquashFS image (COMP_OPTS flag is 1 but dictionary size\nis 0) is mounted, and performs shift operations using dictionarysize, the\nshift exponent is -1, causing a shift-out-of-bounds.\n\nDetail as below:\nsquashfs_comp_opts(msblk, buffer, length)\n  squashfs_xz_comp_opts()\n    if (comp_opts)\n      n = ffs(opts-\u003edict_size) - 1;\u003c----opts-\u003edict_size=0, n=-1\n      if (opts-\u003edict_size != (1 \u003c\u003c n) && opts-\u003edict_size !=\n\t  \t(1 \u003c\u003c n) + (1 \u003c\u003c (n + 1))) \u003c----shift-out-of-bounds\n\nFix it by adding a dictionary size range check before the shift operation."
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