CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89770

Low risk· EPSS 4%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was resolved in iomap where a non-existent integrity payload was freed. fs_bio_integrity_alloc might not allocate a bio integrity payload if PI verification is disabled on the block device — the fix checks for that case before calling fs_bio_integrity_free in iomap_bio_read_folio_range_sync to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

A NULL pointer dereference may lead to a kernel crash (panic) and system unavailability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that checks for the existence of the integrity payload before freeing it.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iomap: don't free integrity payload that doesn't exist fs_bio_integrity_alloc might not allocate a bio integrity payload if PI verification is disabled on the block device. Check for that case before calling fs_bio_integrity_free in iomap_bio_read_folio_range_sync to avoid a NULL pointer dereferences. Make the branch cover the PI verification as well - while fs_bio_integrity_verify works without an integrity payload, it requires one to actually do useful work.

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