CVE-2026-72098 (GCVE-0-2026-72098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:52 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:40
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Title
dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation There's a buffer overflow in dm-verity-fec: if (neras && *neras <= v->fec->roots) fio->erasures[(*neras)++] = i; This allows *neras to reach roots + 1 (the post-increment pushes it past roots). This value is then passed as no_eras to decode_rs8(). Inside the RS decoder (lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c:113-121), the erasure locator polynomial loop writes lambda[j] where j can reach nroots + 1 — one element past the end of lambda[] (which is sized nroots + 1, valid indices 0..nroots). The out-of-bounds write lands on syn[0], corrupting the syndrome buffer.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: a739ff3f543afbb4a041c16cd0182c8e8d366e70 , < 5488d3a69d205e28f74f18857b853aa12e778e66 (git)
Affected: a739ff3f543afbb4a041c16cd0182c8e8d366e70 , < f7990c2b0f08b8841fcd2652d1d7002f5994a7a7 (git)
Affected: a739ff3f543afbb4a041c16cd0182c8e8d366e70 , < 31d6e6c0ba8d5a7bd59660035a089307100c5e8e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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