Bug 2525408 (CVE-2026-80631)

Summary:	CVE-2026-80631 kernel: btrfs: lzo: reject compressed segment that overflows the compressed input
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Btrfs filesystem, specifically within its LZO decompression functionality. A local attacker could provide a specially crafted Btrfs image containing a compressed segment that, due to improper validation of its length, overflows the compressed input buffer. This out-of-bounds read leads to a null-pointer dereference, which can cause a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 07:43:29 UTC

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

btrfs: lzo: reject compressed segment that overflows the compressed input

lzo_decompress_bio() validates each on-disk segment length seg_len only
against the workspace cbuf size, not against the compressed input size
(compressed_len, the total folio bytes of the bio).  A crafted extent can
carry a segment whose seg_len passes the cbuf check but runs past the end
of the bio, so copy_compressed_segment() walks off the last folio:
get_current_folio() then returns the NULL folio from bio_next_folio(), and
with CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT disabled (default) folio_size(NULL) faults.

 BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in lzo_decompress_bio (fs/btrfs/lzo.c:383)
 Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task kworker/u8:1/29
 Workqueue: btrfs-endio simple_end_io_work
  kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:590)
  lzo_decompress_bio (fs/btrfs/lzo.c:383)
  end_bbio_compressed_read (fs/btrfs/compression.c:1065)
  btrfs_bio_end_io (fs/btrfs/bio.c:135)
  btrfs_check_read_bio (fs/btrfs/bio.c:180 fs/btrfs/bio.c:285)
  simple_end_io_work
  process_one_work
  worker_thread

Reject any segment whose payload would extend beyond compressed_len before
copying it, treating it as corruption like the other on-disk validation
failures in this function.

Comment 1 gkamathe 2026-08-31 11:01:33 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026082838-CVE-2026-80631-96c3@gregkh/T