Bug 2451212 (CVE-2026-23388) - CVE-2026-23388 kernel: Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range
Summary: CVE-2026-23388 kernel: Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23388
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-25 11:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-25 15:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-25 11:04:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range

Syzkaller reports a "general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data"

This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which
produces a negative metadata block offset.

This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via
squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds
access.

The fix is to check that the offset is within range in
squashfs_read_metadata.  This will trap this and other cases.


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