CVE-2026-89495

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-89495

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

ocfs2: bound namelen in dlm_migrate_request_handler

Patch series "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm".

The o2dlm receive handlers trust u8 length and count fields from the wire

without bounding them, so a node in a DLM domain can corrupt or panic any

other node with a malformed message. Three defects:

- dlm_migrate_request_handler() passes migrate->namelen unchecked to

dlm_init_mle(), which memcpy()s it into the 32-byte mname[] of an

o2dlm_mle slab object: a heap out-of-bounds write of up to ~215

attacker-controlled bytes.

- dlm_mig_lockres_handler() passes mres->lockname_len unchecked to

dlm_init_lockres(), which memcpy()s it into the 32-byte o2dlm_lockname

slab object: a heap out-of-bounds write of up to ~223 bytes.

- the same handler trusts mres->num_locks without checking that the

message is large enough to hold that many entries, so

dlm_process_recovery_data() walks mres->ml[] past the kmalloc(data_len)

copy and trips a BUG_ON (an out-of-bounds read ending in a panic).

The other o2dlm receive handlers already reject an oversized name; the

migration and recovery handlers have omitted it since the DLM was added

(see the Fixes tags). Patch 1 bounds namelen; patch 2 validates

lockname_len, num_locks, and the payload size. Conforming recovery and

migration traffic is unaffected.

o2net authenticates peers only by the DLM domain key, so any node that has

joined the domain -- including a compromised or malicious member -- can

send these messages. There is no local trigger; the attacker must already

be a member of the cluster.

Each sink was confirmed under KASAN with an out-of-tree module mirroring

it exactly -- a kmem_cache/kmalloc of the real destination size, then the

same unclamped memcpy/loop: slab-out-of-bounds Write for the two writes,

Read for the recovery walk, and a panic. A userspace AddressSanitizer

build faults identically under -m32 and -m64. Scrubbed logs are available

on request.

I reported this privately to [email protected] and the ocfs2 maintainers

on 2026-06-20; with no response after the standard embargo period I am

posting the fix publicly. I have no embargo requirement.

This patch (of 2):

A node receiving a DLM_MIGRATE_REQUEST message trusts the peer-supplied

name length (migrate->namelen) without bounding it. dlm_init_mle() then

copies that many bytes into the fixed DLM_LOCKID_NAME_MAX-byte mname[]

array of an o2dlm_mle slab object, so a malformed message from a cluster

peer overflows the slab object by up to ~215 bytes: a heap out-of-bounds

write of attacker-controlled data, reachable by any node in the domain.

Reject an oversized name, the way dlm_master_request_handler() and the

other o2dlm receive handlers already do; the migration handler omits the

check entirely. Conforming messages are unaffected. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References