CVE-2026-53130

fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START

High · published June 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START

omfs_fill_super() rejects oversized s_sys_blocksize values (> PAGE_SIZE),

but it does not reject values smaller than OMFS_DIR_START (0x1b8 = 440).

Later, omfs_make_empty() uses

sbi->s_sys_blocksize - OMFS_DIR_START

as the length argument to memset(). Since s_sys_blocksize is u32,

a crafted filesystem image with s_sys_blocksize < OMFS_DIR_START causes

an unsigned underflow there, wrapping to a value near 2^32. That drives

a ~4 GiB memset() from bh->b_data + OMFS_DIR_START and overwrites kernel

memory far beyond the backing block buffer.

Add the corresponding lower-bound check alongside the existing upper-bound

check in omfs_fill_super(), so that malformed images are rejected during

superblock validation before any filesystem data is processed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00186 · 7.8th percentile
Published
2026-06-24T16:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 16:30Z
    fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
    cvelistv5