CVE-2026-64323 PUBLISHED

udf: validate VAT header length against the VAT inode size

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

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

udf: validate VAT header length against the VAT inode size

udf_load_vat() takes the virtual partition's start offset straight from the on-disk VAT 2.0 header without checking it against the VAT inode size:

<pre>map->s_type_specific.s_virtual.s_start_offset = le16_to_cpu(vat20->lengthHeader); map->s_type_specific.s_virtual.s_num_entries = (sbi->s_vat_inode->i_size - map->s_type_specific.s_virtual.s_start_offset) >> 2; </pre>

lengthHeader is a fully attacker-controlled 16-bit value. If it exceeds the VAT inode size, the s_num_entries subtraction underflows to a huge count, which defeats the "block > s_num_entries" bound in udf_get_pblock_virt15(); and on the ICB-inline path that function reads

<pre>((__le32 *)(iinfo->i_data + s_start_offset))[block] </pre>

so a large s_start_offset indexes past the inode's in-ICB data. Mounting a crafted UDF image with a virtual (VAT) partition then triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Reject a VAT whose header length does not leave room for at least one entry within the VAT inode.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to 0ad2d09a8d66fa8dc6f9b70d660b5fb4478ea934 (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to 883962731420ec271ed8c1cd76524f4b17faa982 (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to 2900e02a0dd4fc30ac9840e7ce4ca0b041ab0d63 (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to bb0d384c1f42a5b7ace0bd88fee80b9bb1d49acb (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to 55287a3555ff0515b3aff181d2c08c0462a41709 (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to e610fb113cdfa8bf4247c9bf4f2337b81ad4ddad (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to 74580fdf022909e184223cacc364feb826982d96 (excl.)
  • affected from fa5e08156335d0687c85b4e724db9448fb166601 to d8202786b3d75125c84ebc4de6d946f92fde0ee8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.26 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.26 (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-rc1 to * (incl.)

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