CVE-2026-52955

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-52955

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode()

A message of type CEPH_MSG_OSD_MAP containing a crush map with at least

one bucket has two fields holding the bucket algorithm. If the values

in these two fields differ, an out-of-bounds access can occur. This is

the case because the first algorithm field (alg) is used to allocate

the correct amount of memory for a bucket of this type, while the second

algorithm field inside the bucket (b->alg) is used in the subsequent

processing.

This patch fixes the issue by adding a check that compares alg and

b->alg and aborts the processing in case they differ. Furthermore,

b->alg is set to 0 in this case, because the destruction of the crush

map also uses this field to determine the bucket type, which can again

result in an out-of-bounds access when trying to free the memory pointed

to by the fields of the bucket. To correctly free the memory allocated

for the bucket in such a case, the corresponding call to kfree is moved

from the algorithm-specific crush_destroy_bucket functions to the

generic crush_destroy_bucket(). (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's and Red Hat's web pages for any future patch releases.

References