Bug 2532023 (CVE-2026-89497)

Summary: CVE-2026-89497 kernel: orangefs: skip leading spaces before parsing client debug masks
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Orange File System (orangefs) client. The `orangefs_prepare_cdm_array()` function incorrectly calculates the buffer size for client debug keywords when an entry starts with a space. This can lead to a buffer overflow, allowing data to be written beyond the intended memory boundary. Such memory corruption could potentially result in a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 20:03:31 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

orangefs: skip leading spaces before parsing client debug masks

orangefs_prepare_cdm_array() sizes each client debug keyword buffer
with strcspn(cds_head, " "), but then parses the keyword with %s. The
%s conversion skips leading whitespace, while strcspn() does not.

If a client debug entry starts with a space, the allocation can be sized
for an empty keyword while sscanf() copies the following non-empty token.
This can write past the end of the allocated keyword buffer.

Skip leading spaces before computing the keyword length so the allocation
matches the string parsed by sscanf().
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-09-14 08:53:06 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-89497.mbox