CVE-2026-46130

Technical Description

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

dm-verity-fec: fix reading parity bytes split across blocks (take 3)

fec_decode_bufs() assumes that the parity bytes of the first RS codeword

it decodes are never split across parity blocks.

This assumption is false. Consider v->fec->block_size == 4096 &&

v->fec->roots == 17 && fio->nbufs == 1, for example. In that case, each

call to fec_decode_bufs() consumes v->fec->roots * (fio->nbufs <<

DM_VERITY_FEC_BUF_RS_BITS) = 272 parity bytes.

Considering that the parity data for each message block starts on a

block boundary, the byte alignment in the parity data will iterate

through 272*i mod 4096 until the 3 parity blocks have been consumed. On

the 16th call (i=15), the alignment will be 4080 bytes into the first

block. Only 16 bytes remain in that block, but 17 parity bytes will be

needed. The code reads out-of-bounds from the parity block buffer.

Fortunately this doesn't normally happen, since it can occur only

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References