Bug 2492277 (CVE-2026-53059) - CVE-2026-53059 kernel: dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow
Summary: CVE-2026-53059 kernel: dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count ov...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53059
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-24 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 14:31 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:02:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow

The local variable region_count in create_log_context() is declared as
unsigned int (32-bit), but dm_sector_div_up() returns sector_t (64-bit).
When a device-mapper target has a sufficiently large ti->len with a small
region_size, the division result can exceed UINT_MAX. The truncated
value is then used to calculate bitset_size, causing clean_bits,
sync_bits, and recovering_bits to be allocated far smaller than needed
for the actual number of regions.

Subsequent log operations (log_set_bit, log_clear_bit, log_test_bit) use
region indices derived from the full untruncated region space, causing
out-of-bounds writes to kernel heap memory allocated by vmalloc.

This can be reproduced by creating a mirror target whose region_count
overflows 32 bits:

  dmsetup create bigzero --table '0 8589934594 zero'
  dmsetup create mymirror --table '0 8589934594 mirror \
    core 2 2 nosync 2 /dev/mapper/bigzero 0 \
    /dev/mapper/bigzero 0'

The status output confirms the truncation (sync_count=1 instead of
4294967297, because 0x100000001 was truncated to 1):

  $ dmsetup status mymirror
  0 8589934594 mirror 2 254:1 254:1 1/4294967297 ...

This leads to a kernel crash in core_in_sync:

  BUG: scheduling while atomic: (udev-worker)/9150/0x00000000
  RIP: 0010:core_in_sync+0x14/0x30 [dm_log]
  CR2: 0000000000000008
  Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

Fix by widening the local region_count to sector_t and adding an
explicit overflow check before the value is assigned to lc->region_count.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-25 14:29:26 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062401-CVE-2026-53059-f32e@gregkh/T


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