CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46281

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow was found in the vrealloc_node_align() function in the vmalloc allocator. When shrinking an allocation (size < old_size), the code copies old_size bytes into the new buffer, causing an out-of-bounds write. The bug was introduced in commit 4c5d3365882d.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes kernel memory corruption, potentially leading to system crash (kernel panic) or privilege escalation by a local attacker.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that limits the copy length to the new allocation size.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmalloc: fix buffer overflow in vrealloc_node_align() Commit 4c5d3365882d ("mm/vmalloc: allow to set node and align in vrealloc") added the ability to force a new allocation if the current pointer is on the wrong NUMA node, or if an alignment constraint is not met, even if the user is shrinking the allocation. On this path (need_realloc), the code allocates a new object of 'size' bytes and then memcpy()s 'old_size' bytes into it. If the request is to shrink the object (size < old_size), this results in an out-of-bounds write on the new buffer. Fix this by bounding the copy length by the new allocation size.

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