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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-52992

| EUVDEUVD-2026-38860 HIGH
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
2026-06-24 Linux GHSA-5h77-9826-97qg
Buffer Overflow Linux Memory Corruption Red Hat Suse
7.8
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
7.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
7.8 HIGH

Local mounting of a crafted image needs some privilege or automount access (AV:L, PR:L, AC:L); a kernel heap OOB write yields high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 14, 2026 - 20:42 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 14, 2026 - 19:52 NVD
7.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jun 24, 2026 - 18:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Jun 24, 2026 - 16:29 nvd
HIGH 7.8
CVE Published
Jun 24, 2026 - 16:29 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

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

fs/adfs: validate nzones in adfs_validate_bblk()

Reject ADFS disc records with a zero zone count during boot block validation, before the disc record is used.

When nzones is 0, adfs_read_map() passes it to kmalloc_array(0, ...) which returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR, and adfs_map_layout() then writes to dm[-1], causing an out-of-bounds write before the allocated buffer.

adfs_validate_dr0() already rejects nzones != 1 for old-format images. Add the equivalent check to adfs_validate_bblk() for new-format images so that a crafted image with nzones == 0 is rejected at probe time.

Found by syzkaller.

AnalysisAI

Out-of-bounds heap write in the Linux kernel's ADFS (Acorn Disc Filing System) driver allows a local attacker to corrupt kernel memory by mounting a crafted new-format ADFS disc image whose disc record declares a zone count of zero. adfs_read_map() forwards nzones==0 to kmalloc_array(0, ...), which returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR, and adfs_map_layout() then writes to dm[-1], an out-of-bounds write before the allocated buffer. The flaw was found by syzkaller; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS scores it at just 0.18% (8th percentile).

Technical ContextAI

ADFS is the legacy Acorn/RISC OS disc filesystem, an optional and rarely-enabled kernel module (fs/adfs). During filesystem probe, adfs_validate_bblk() parses the on-disk 'disc record' from the boot block of a new-format image. The 'nzones' field describes how many fragment-map zones the volume contains and drives a kmalloc_array(nzones, ...) allocation in adfs_read_map(). When nzones is 0, the kernel's slab allocator returns the special ZERO_SIZE_PTR sentinel rather than a real buffer, and adfs_map_layout() indexes dm[-1], writing before the (non-existent) allocation. This is CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) rooted in missing input validation of an attacker-controlled length taken from untrusted media. The old-format path already guarded against this via adfs_validate_dr0() rejecting nzones != 1; the fix adds the equivalent zero-zone rejection to the new-format validator so the record is rejected at probe time before use.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade to a fixed stable kernel - 5.10.258, 5.15.209, 6.1.175, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, 6.18.33, 7.0.10, or 7.1 or later, matching your kernel series; the corresponding stable commits are published at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33aafd2418a59c96c0389d47ea09026661fa9ec6 (and sibling commits 1f0ed0f57f0f, 6ff8cca5cdb4, a11372a8b1ce, 1586bd2d2fb4, a3fd5dc1c7b0, 60d82592ac8b, dd9d3e16c2d5). Because exploitation requires the ADFS driver to process a crafted image, an effective compensating control where patching is delayed is to prevent the module from loading - blacklist it via 'install adfs /bin/true' in modprobe.d (side effect: legitimate ADFS media becomes unmountable, which is negligible impact on virtually all modern systems since ADFS is essentially unused). Additionally, disable or restrict automatic mounting of removable/untrusted media (e.g. tighten udisks/udev automount policies) so an attacker cannot trigger the parser by inserting media; the trade-off is reduced convenience for legitimate removable-media workflows.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 Affected

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