CVE-2026-89490
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Integer Overflow in OCFS2 Directory Readdir on 32-bit Kernels
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-89490, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-09-11
Last updated on: 2026-09-14
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
In ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the directory cookie position is
rebuilt with
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;
`ctx->pos` is loff_t (signed 64-bit), while `sb->s_blocksize` is
unsigned long. On 32-bit kernels unsigned long is 32-bit, so the mask
~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)
is computed as a 32-bit unsigned value (e.g. 0xfffff000 for a 4 KiB
block size). In the AND expression with the 64-bit `ctx->pos`, that
unsigned operand is zero-extended to 64 bits per the usual arithmetic
conversions, yielding 0x00000000fffff000. The high 32 bits of
`ctx->pos` are silently cleared, even though directory size is
allowed to exceed 4 GiB.
When readdir() crosses the 4 GiB boundary on a 32-bit kernel the
position is reset back into the first 4 GiB block, making the
re-validation path re-enumerate already-returned dirents indefinitely.
This is ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the extent-list readdir path taken
for all non-inline directories, so a directory large enough to cross
4 GiB reaches it.
This is the same class of bug that commit 3dce5bb82c97 ("exfat: Fix
bitwise operation having different size") fixed in exfat, and the
fix mirrors the equivalent ext4 fix in this series. Cast the operand
to loff_t so the mask is 64-bit before the AND:
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;
64-bit kernels are unaffected.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| oracle | ocfs2 | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
