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CVE-2026-31438

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CVE-2026-31438

Published: Apr 22, 2026

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators When a process crashes and the kernel writes a core dump to a 9P filesystem, __kernel_write() creates an ITER_KVEC iterator. This iterator reaches netfs_limit_iter() via netfs_unbuffered_write(), which only handles ITER_FOLIOQ, ITER_BVEC and ITER_XARRAY iterator types, hitting the BUG() for any other type. Fix this by adding netfs_limit_kvec() following the same pattern as netfs_limit_bvec(), since both kvec and bvec are simple segment arrays with pointer and length fields. Dispatch it from netfs_limit_iter() when the iterator type is ITER_KVEC.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
cae932d3aee55035a54415dcea8e7ecf2ec469b5 - < 18c2e20b42dd21db599e42d05ddaeeb647b2bb6d
affected
cae932d3aee55035a54415dcea8e7ecf2ec469b5 - < 4bc2d72c7695cedf6d4e1a558924903c2b28a78e
affected
cae932d3aee55035a54415dcea8e7ecf2ec469b5 - < 00d6df7115f6972370974212de9088087820802e
affected
cae932d3aee55035a54415dcea8e7ecf2ec469b5 - < 67e467a11f62ff64ad219dc6aa5459e132c79d14

Linux

Linux

affected
6.8
unaffected
0 - < 6.8
unaffected
6.12.80 - <= 6.12.*
unaffected
6.18.21 - <= 6.18.*
unaffected
6.19.11 - <= 6.19.*

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