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CVE-2026-53059

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow The local variable region_count in create_log_context() is declared as unsigned int (32-bit), but dm_sector_div_up() returns sector_t (64-bit). When a device-mapper target has a sufficiently large ti->len with a small region_size, the division result can exceed UINT_MAX. The truncated value is then used to calculate bitset_size, causing clean_bits, sync_bits, and recovering_bits to be allocated far smaller than needed for the actual number of regions. Subsequent log operations (log_set_bit, log_clear_bit, log_test_bit) use region indices derived from the full untruncated region space, causing out-of-bounds writes to kernel heap memory allocated by vmalloc. This can be reproduced by creating a mirror target whose region_count overflows 32 bits: dmsetup create bigzero --table '0 8589934594 zero' dmsetup create mymirror --table '0 8589934594 mirror \ core 2 2 nosync 2 /dev/mapper/bigzero 0 \ /dev/mapper/bigzero 0' The status output confirms the truncation (sync_count=1 instead of 4294967297, because 0x100000001 was truncated to 1): $ dmsetup status mymirror 0 8589934594 mirror 2 254:1 254:1 1/4294967297 ... This leads to a kernel crash in core_in_sync: BUG: scheduling while atomic: (udev-worker)/9150/0x00000000 RIP: 0010:core_in_sync+0x14/0x30 [dm_log] CR2: 0000000000000008 Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Fix by widening the local region_count to sector_t and adding an explicit overflow check before the value is assigned to lc->region_count.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53059
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-24 16:30 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 44ab8875ae4a2842bde2d756bed195d375e0debb, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < defe483e47173768c227532694dc78cb65db5f09, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3ec74da927b4e171a6fc0e77b1188ba4d019af51, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < d4ac87567f86a55c3c92e9a5144dcd943a9772a1 …
Linux Linux 2.6.12, 0 < 2.6.12, 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* …
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