CVE-2026-31694 PUBLISHED

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 01.05.2026 Updated: 01.05.2026

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

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.

As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes into the following kernel page.

Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into the readdir cache.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb to d23ad78bfd205eac26766e38ba7d79f279131098 (excl.)
  • affected from 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb to 45c05af36311624c1148123caeb011312495d86b (excl.)
  • affected from 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb to 7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8f (excl.)
  • affected from 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb to 474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5 (excl.)
  • affected from 69e34551152a286f827d54dcb5700da6aeaac1fb to 51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.20 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.20 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.136 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.84 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.25 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.2 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc1 to * (incl.)

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