EUVD-2026-12858Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionNVD
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls
The xchk_xfile_*_descr macros call kasprintf, which can fail to allocate memory if the formatted string is larger than 16 bytes (or whatever the nofail guarantees are nowadays). Some of them could easily exceed that, and Jiaming Zhang found a few places where that can happen with syzbot.
The descriptions are debugging aids and aren't required to be unique, so let's just pass in static strings and eliminate this path to failure. Note this patch touches a number of commits, most of which were merged between 6.6 and 6.14.
AnalysisAI
A memory allocation failure vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem checking code where the xchk_xfile_*_descr macros call kasprintf with formatted strings that can exceed safe allocation limits, leading to potential denial of service or information disclosure. This affects Linux kernel versions 6.6 through 6.14 and later releases including 6.18.16, 6.19.6, and 7.0-rc1, with the vulnerability discoverable through syzbot fuzzing by researcher Jiaming Zhang. …
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Vendor StatusVendor
Debian
| Release | Status | Fixed Version | Urgency |
|---|---|---|---|
| bullseye | not-affected | - | - |
| bullseye (security) | fixed | 5.10.251-1 | - |
| bookworm | not-affected | - | - |
| bookworm (security) | fixed | 6.1.164-1 | - |
| trixie | vulnerable | 6.12.73-1 | - |
| trixie (security) | vulnerable | 6.12.74-2 | - |
| forky | fixed | 6.19.6-2 | - |
| sid | fixed | 6.19.8-1 | - |
| (unstable) | fixed | 6.19.6-1 | - |
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