Bug 2507149 (CVE-2026-64361) - CVE-2026-64361 kernel: hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_requested_length
Summary: CVE-2026-64361 kernel: hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_req...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64361
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-29 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:07:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_requested_length

check_and_correct_requested_length() compares (off + len) against
node_size using u32 arithmetic.  When the caller passes a large len
value (e.g. from an underflowed subtraction in hfs_brec_remove()),
off + len can wrap past 2^32 and produce a small result, causing the
bounds check to pass when it should fail.

For example, with off=14 and len=0xFFFFFFF2 (underflowed from
data_off - keyoffset - size in hfs_brec_remove), off + len wraps to 6,
which is less than a typical node_size of 512, so the check passes and
the subsequent memmove reads ~4GB past the node buffer.

Fix this by widening the addition to u64 before comparing against
node_size.  This prevents the u32 wrap while keeping the logic
straightforward.


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