Bug 2536297 (CVE-2026-93198) - CVE-2026-93198 kernel: dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at load
Summary: CVE-2026-93198 kernel: dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:16 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 14:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:16:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at load

The writeback worker follows the persisted dirty_tail chain, which is
decoded from the cache device independently of the key_tail chain that
cache_replay() walks and bounds. A crafted image, whose on-media fields are
authenticated only by a crc32c with a fixed seed, can aim dirty_tail at a
chain of last ksets that never terminates, so cache_writeback_fn() re-arms
itself with no delay forever.

Walk the dirty_tail chain once at load with the same hop cap cache_replay()
uses and fail the table load with -EIO if it does not reach an end within
n_segs hops.


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