Bug 2492358 (CVE-2026-53130)

Summary: CVE-2026-53130 kernel: fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:07:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START

omfs_fill_super() rejects oversized s_sys_blocksize values (> PAGE_SIZE),
but it does not reject values smaller than OMFS_DIR_START (0x1b8 = 440).

Later, omfs_make_empty() uses

    sbi->s_sys_blocksize - OMFS_DIR_START

as the length argument to memset().  Since s_sys_blocksize is u32,
a crafted filesystem image with s_sys_blocksize < OMFS_DIR_START causes
an unsigned underflow there, wrapping to a value near 2^32.  That drives
a ~4 GiB memset() from bh->b_data + OMFS_DIR_START and overwrites kernel
memory far beyond the backing block buffer.

Add the corresponding lower-bound check alongside the existing upper-bound
check in omfs_fill_super(), so that malformed images are rejected during
superblock validation before any filesystem data is processed.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-24 18:09:19 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062418-CVE-2026-53130-c204@gregkh/T