CVE-2026-74671 (GCVE-0-2026-74671)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-22 15:32
VLAI
Title
ima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify() The digest-length check in xattr_verify() mixes int and size_t: if (xattr_len - sizeof(xattr_value->type) - hash_start >= iint->ima_hash->length) sizeof() yields size_t, so the usual arithmetic conversions promote the whole left-hand side to unsigned 64-bit before the subtraction runs. For a truncated xattr this underflows instead of going negative: a 1-byte IMA_XATTR_DIGEST_NG xattr (xattr_len == 1, hash_start == 1) turns "1 - 1 - 1" into SIZE_MAX, which is trivially >= ima_hash->length. The check then passes and the following memcmp() reads iint->ima_hash->length bytes starting past the end of the buffer vfs_getxattr_alloc() allocated for it. Nothing upstream clamps xattr_len back into a safe range first: ima_get_hash_algo() only special-cases xattr_len < 2 to pick a default algorithm, and evm_verifyxattr() returns INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN rather than failing when no HMAC key is loaded, so a truncated security.ima value reaches the length check as-is. Rewrite the comparison so every operand stays a signed int and no implicit conversion to size_t can occur.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < d823b5f4557083d1dd92096f796a78a2b1b06d10 (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < caeb105c15ea2431fa8da7ecfa242d0c68272426 (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < a784b4732ac7e51862b9b210c2d8b2ab9e83568c (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < b6cb134707a2127d90a58d69dd818679cae8033c (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < 7e515b6c9aab452a4f0734bd7208e4e780e164ca (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < 27f3924061592d0ef6b04e16f48754b6cb6adf27 (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < dd04114af0d451091f7b8cbd26d9e37d011e9131 (git)
Affected: 3ea7a56067e663278470c04fd655adf809e72d4d , < 5ff232d31106f45ac87c3b64e1d35a0667777797 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.152 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.104 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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