Bug 2513212 (CVE-2026-68157)

Summary:	CVE-2026-68157 kernel: Linux kernel: libceph null pointer dereference leads to denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in libceph, a component of the Linux kernel. When processing a malformed CRUSH map, if a parent bucket's name exists but its type is missing, a null pointer dereference can occur. This issue can lead to a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:25:10 UTC

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

libceph: guard missing CRUSH type name lookup

Localized read selection can walk a parent bucket whose name exists in
the CRUSH map while its type has no matching entry in type_names.
get_immediate_parent() then dereferences a NULL type_cn and passes an
invalid pointer into strcmp(), causing a null-ptr-deref.

Skip such malformed parent buckets unless both the bucket name and type
name metadata are present. This keeps malformed hierarchy data from
crashing locality lookup and safely falls back to "not local".

[ idryomov: add WARN_ON_ONCE ]