CVE-2026-45999 PUBLISHED

erofs: fix unsigned underflow in z_erofs_lz4_handle_overlap()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

erofs: fix unsigned underflow in z_erofs_lz4_handle_overlap()

Some crafted images can have illegal (!partial_decoding && m_llen < m_plen) extents, and the LZ4 inplace decompression path can be wrongly hit, but it cannot handle (outpages < inpages) properly: "outpages - inpages" wraps to a large value and the subsequent rq->out[] access reads past the decompressed_pages array.

However, such crafted cases can correctly result in a corruption report in the normal LZ4 non-inplace path.

Let's add an additional check to fix this for backporting.

Reproducible image (base64-encoded gzipped blob):

H4sIAJGR12kCA+3SPUoDQRgG4MkmkkZk8QRbRFIIi9hbpEjrHQI5ghfwCN5BLCzTGtLbBI+g dilSJo1CnIm7GEXFxhT6PDDwfrs73/ywIQD/1ePD4r7Ou6ETsrq4mu7XcWfj++Pb58nJU/9i PNtbjhan04/9GtX4qVYc814WDqt6FaX5s+ZwXXeq52lndT6IuVvlblytLMvh4Gzwaf90nsvz 2DF/21+20T/ldgp5s1jXRaN4t/8izsy/OUB6e/Qa79r+JwAAAAAAAL52vQVuGQAAAP6+my1w ywAAAAAAAADwu14ATsEYtgBQAAA=

$ mount -t erofs -o cache_strategy=disabled foo.erofs /mnt $ dd if=/mnt/data of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 598162d050801e556750defff4ddab499e5d76ed to 43a878639b90e9721ffa5eb616a7e6d8454adef3 (excl.)
  • affected from 598162d050801e556750defff4ddab499e5d76ed to f1374fa6e57fd836623668d782ded9244cfd2938 (excl.)
  • affected from 598162d050801e556750defff4ddab499e5d76ed to c9ce18e6bb2c467ec85756dc7989b547b7584fee (excl.)
  • affected from 598162d050801e556750defff4ddab499e5d76ed to bbbbb3f0d7864238a8da2a94cd6ec013fee06a2e (excl.)
  • affected from 598162d050801e556750defff4ddab499e5d76ed to 21e161de2dc660b1bb70ef5b156ab8e6e1cca3ab (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.140 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.88 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.30 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.4 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc1 to * (incl.)

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