CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89584

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Linux kernel did not validate user space vector alignment when building a bio from iov_iter. Bio-based block drivers did not necessarily check the alignment split, potentially causing incorrect behavior. The fix validates vectors against the device's dma_alignment and rejects misaligned ones with -EINVAL.

Risk Assessment

Misaligned I/O vectors can cause errors in the block layer and system instability during disk operations. In environments with devices requiring specific DMA alignment, this may lead to data corruption or crashes.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that validates user vectors against the device's dma_alignment. Verify that block drivers and applications performing direct I/O use properly aligned buffers.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: validate user space vectors during extraction The bio-based drivers don't necessarily check the alignment split, and stacking block drivers don't always handle a misalignment detected after submitting the bio. Validate user vectors against the device's dma_alignment as the bio is built from the iov_iter, rejecting misaligned early with -EINVAL.

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