Bug 2536496 (CVE-2026-90203) - CVE-2026-90203 kernel: Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
Summary: CVE-2026-90203 kernel: Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90203
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:13 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 03:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:13:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Squashfs: check block offset is not negative

If a negative offset is read off disk (for example the offset into the
decompressed fragment block), this will cause squashfs_copy_data() to
perform an out of bounds access.

Fix by checking if offset is negative, and returning 0.  This matches
existing behaviour where an offset beyond the block returns 0 bytes
copied.

To trigger this out of bounds access requires a crafted Squashfs
filesystem and CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount it.  Unprivileged users will not be
able to mount such a filesystem, but once mounted, an unprivileged user
can trigger the out of bounds access by reading the crafted file with the
negative offset.


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