Bug 2525431 (CVE-2026-80656) - CVE-2026-80656 kernel: hfsplus: Add a sanity check for btree node size
Summary: CVE-2026-80656 kernel: hfsplus: Add a sanity check for btree node size
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80656
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 07:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 15:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 07:44:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfsplus: Add a sanity check for btree node size

Syzbot reported an uninit-value bug in [1] with a corrupted HFS+ image,
during the file system mounting process, specifically while loading the
catalog, a corrupted node_size value of 1 caused the rec_off argument
passed to hfs_bnode_read_u16() (within hfs_bnode_find()) to be excessively
large. Consequently, the function failed to return a valid value to
initialize the off variable, triggering the bug [1].

Every node starts from BTree node descriptor: struct hfs_bnode_desc.
So, the size of node cannot be lesser than that. However, technical
specification declares that: "The node size (which is expressed in bytes)
must be power of two, from 512 through 32,768, inclusive." Add a check
for btree node size base on technical specification.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfsplus_bnode_find+0x141c/0x1600 fs/hfsplus/bnode.c:584
 hfsplus_bnode_find+0x141c/0x1600 fs/hfsplus/bnode.c:584
 hfsplus_btree_open+0x169a/0x1e40 fs/hfsplus/btree.c:382
 hfsplus_fill_super+0x111f/0x2770 fs/hfsplus/super.c:553
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694
 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717
 hfsplus_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/hfsplus/super.c:709
 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]


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