High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published May 27, 2026· Updated Jun 1, 2026
CVE-2026-46078
CVE-2026-46078
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix the out-of-bounds nameoff handling for trailing dirents
Currently we already have boundary-checks for nameoffs, but the trailing dirents are special since the namelens are calculated with strnlen() with unchecked nameoffs.
If a crafted EROFS has a trailing dirent with nameoff >= maxsize, maxsize - nameoff can underflow, causing strnlen() to read past the directory block.
nameoff0 should also be verified to be a multiple of sizeof(struct erofs_dirent) as well [1].
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260416063511.3173774-1-hsiangkao%40linux.alibaba.com
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6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d55445226c75ddd4e78b09b3e7d99109b28c366nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/222055e6b4063abd2d9e13c3d49bbd1724c50789nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/48b27a955d22391c7f30169fa7b6b2e1977f1ce4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/80a23c6d1aba35be8746d74ac14e6ba5ae46da21nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ebb951a284b7446e025afc7dc5e9516ef9a7214nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d18a3b5d337fa412a38e776e6b4b857a58836575nvd
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