Bug 2521977 - CVE-2026-48754 incus: Incus: Denial of Service via malformed instance backup [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-48754 incus: Incus: Denial of Service via malformed instance backup ...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: incus
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Neal Gompa
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Blocks: CVE-2026-48754
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Reported: 2026-08-24 14:42 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2026-08-24 14:42 UTC (History)
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Description Laura Pardo 2026-08-24 14:42:23 UTC
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Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).createDependentVolumesFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains a cluster of unguarded pointer derefs on every dependent-volume entry's `VolumeSnapshots[i]`, `Volume`, and `Pool` sub-fields. An authenticated user with `can_create_instances` permission on any project can crash the `incusd` daemon by uploading an instance backup tarball whose `dependent_volumes[*]` block contains a nil snapshot pointer (or omits `volume:` / `pool:`). This is a sibling-field variant of the 2026-05-04 batch fix `d768f81c0a1d985f35ae56219519822b080bf5e3` ("Properly check dependent volumes on import"). That commit added `if disk == nil` at the top of the outer loop, but did not guard the four sub-pointer fields the loop body dereferences naked. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.


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