s390/dasd: Fix undersized format-check buffer
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dasd: Fix undersized format-check buffer fmt_buffer_size in dasd_eckd_check_device_format() is declared as int, even though one of the multiplicands, sizeof(struct eckd_count), is a size_t. The expression trkcount * rpt_max * sizeof(struct eckd_count) is therefore correctly evaluated at 64-bit width, but the result is silently truncated when it is stored back into the 32-bit fmt_buffer_size variable. For a sufficiently large track range (start_unit/stop_unit are caller-controlled) this truncation yields a buffer size far smaller than the number of tracks actually requested. kzalloc() then succeeds with an undersized allocation, while the subsequent channel program build still operates on the untruncated track count and writes past the end of that buffer. Compute the buffer size with check_mul_overflow() and keep it in a size_t, so that a value that no longer fits results in -EINVAL instead of a silently truncated allocation size.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.151, 6.12.103, 6.18.44, 7.1.8, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80710
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4j75-ggwr-gg59
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@3d6be353ba0515247f527c6522348ac730b86ff0, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6be353ba0515247f527c6522348ac730b86ff0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aca18289c86f22d3fc2f3f6ff615286e7b1702f6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f88dda2f22927d22498801a92cab6a9424eaf86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e16e0fc54120cee3c6f0362de95aab6792865857
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f3389cd3920714c53e704778f7ca7f1cf0c39c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f40b346462f563a0d6e841a77b5163d2a882a04
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80710 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80710 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4j75-ggwr-gg59 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80710 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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