FKIE_CVE-2026-64318

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-25 10:17 - Updated: 2026-09-03 15:49
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array aix_partition() reads the physical volume descriptor into a fixed-size struct pvd and then scans its physical-partition-extent array: int numpps = be16_to_cpu(pvd->pp_count); ... for (i = 0; i < numpps; i += 1) { struct ppe *p = pvd->ppe + i; ... lp_ix = be16_to_cpu(p->lp_ix); pvd points at a single kmalloc()'d struct pvd whose ppe[] member holds a fixed ARRAY_SIZE(pvd->ppe) (1016) entries, but the loop runs up to the on-disk pp_count. pp_count is an unvalidated __be16 read straight from the descriptor, so a crafted AIX image with pp_count larger than 1016 drives the loop to read pvd->ppe[i] past the end of the allocation (up to 65535 entries, ~2 MB out of bounds). The partition scan runs without mounting anything, when a block device with a crafted AIX/IBM partition table appears (an attacker-supplied image attached with losetup -P, or a device auto-scanned by udev), via msdos_partition() -> aix_partition(). Clamp the scan to the number of entries the ppe[] array can hold.

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npartitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array\n\naix_partition() reads the physical volume descriptor into a fixed-size\nstruct pvd and then scans its physical-partition-extent array:\n\n\tint numpps = be16_to_cpu(pvd-\u003epp_count);\n\t...\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c numpps; i += 1) {\n\t\tstruct ppe *p = pvd-\u003eppe + i;\n\t\t...\n\t\tlp_ix = be16_to_cpu(p-\u003elp_ix);\n\npvd points at a single kmalloc()\u0027d struct pvd whose ppe[] member holds a\nfixed ARRAY_SIZE(pvd-\u003eppe) (1016) entries, but the loop runs up to the\non-disk pp_count.  pp_count is an unvalidated __be16 read straight from\nthe descriptor, so a crafted AIX image with pp_count larger than 1016\ndrives the loop to read pvd-\u003eppe[i] past the end of the allocation (up\nto 65535 entries, ~2 MB out of bounds).\n\nThe partition scan runs without mounting anything, when a block device\nwith a crafted AIX/IBM partition table appears (an attacker-supplied\nimage attached with losetup -P, or a device auto-scanned by udev), via\nmsdos_partition() -\u003e aix_partition().\n\nClamp the scan to the number of entries the ppe[] array can hold."
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