CVE-2026-64299 PUBLISHED

tracing: Prevent out-of-bounds read in glob matching

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

tracing: Prevent out-of-bounds read in glob matching

String event fields are not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the filter predicate functions (filter_pred_string(), filter_pred_strloc() and filter_pred_strrelloc()) pass the field length to the regex match callbacks, and the length-aware matchers honour it.

regex_match_glob() was the exception: it ignored the length and called glob_match(), which scans the string until it hits a NUL byte. Some string fields are not NUL-terminated. One example is the dynamic char array of the xfs_* namespace tracepoints, which is copied without a trailing NUL. For such a field, glob matching reads past the end of the event field, causing a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in glob_match(), reached via regex_match_glob() and filter_match_preds() from the xfs_lookup tracepoint.

Add a length-bounded glob_match_len() and use it from regex_match_glob() so glob matching always stops at the field boundary. The matching loop is factored into a shared helper so glob_match() keeps its behaviour.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to 265f3a690f6c7d69ef7d2ca50b04b4853a211df3 (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to ee5b8888d3248618251fb69a2fad92afcb81557e (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to 56d4c9ab84714eebb285a2fee68aaedf81e3ef15 (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to 35ae19764eabfe9c29029d3b5713c86e6855acdf (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to ebb55902856973906c8bb339a3a34824ed4a5086 (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to 2dad64a97e1df47f5d9ccb17fa319aa348617226 (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to e5d5f3bd053a5f14787526c9f0f55ef900d43ac6 (excl.)
  • affected from 60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 to 0a6070839b1ef276d5b05bedfb787743e140fb17 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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