CVE 7.8 HIGH

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache_CVE-2026-31694

7.8 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the
server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single
page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits
in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page
if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.

As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with
namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB
page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes
into the following kernel page.

Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into
the readdir cache.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-31694
Source Linux
Published May 1, 2026 at 13:53
Modified May 3, 2026 at 05:45

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Affected Versions Linux Linux 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Linux Linux 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Linux Linux 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Linux Linux 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Linux Linux 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb
Linux Linux 4.20

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