Bug 2513295 (CVE-2026-68155) - CVE-2026-68155 kernel: Linux kernel (libceph): Denial of Service due to malformed monitor maps
Summary: CVE-2026-68155 kernel: Linux kernel (libceph): Denial of Service due to malfo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68155
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:29 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-12 12:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:29:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

libceph: Reject monmaps advertising zero monitors

A message of type CEPH_MSG_MON_MAP contains a monmap that is sent from a
monitor to the client. This monmap contains information about the
existing monitors in the cluster. Currently, a monmap indicating that
there are zero monitors in the cluster is treated as valid. However, it
is impossible to have zero monitors in the cluster and still receive a
valid monmap from a monitor. Therefore, such a monmap must be corrupted
and should be treated as invalid. Furthermore, a monmap with a monitor
count of zero can subsequently crash the client when attempting to open
a session with a monitor in __open_session(). This happens because the
"BUG_ON(monc->monmap->num_mon < 1)" assertion in pick_new_mon() is
triggered.

This patch extends a check in ceph_monmap_decode() to also reject
arriving mon_maps with num_mon == 0 rather than only with
num_mon > CEPH_MAX_MON.

[ idryomov: drop "log output for unusual values of num_mon" part ]


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