CVE-2026-72098

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

dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation

There's a buffer overflow in dm-verity-fec:

if (neras && *neras <= v->fec->roots)

fio->erasures[(*neras)++] = i;

This allows *neras to reach roots + 1 (the post-increment pushes it past

roots). This value is then passed as no_eras to decode_rs8(). Inside the

RS decoder (lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c:113-121), the erasure locator

polynomial loop writes lambda[j] where j can reach nroots + 1 — one

element past the end of lambda[] (which is sized nroots + 1, valid

indices 0..nroots). The out-of-bounds write lands on syn[0], corrupting

the syndrome buffer.