CVE-2026-43359

MEDIUM

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before. This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume. Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode. A test case for fstests will follow soon.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-191
Status published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux < 3.12
Linux/Linux 3.12
Linux/Linux 6.1.167 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.78 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.19 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.9 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.130 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 - 2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5
Linux/Linux dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 - 41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d
... and 6 more
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026