CVE-2026-46107

HIGH

dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow There's a bug in dm-thin in the function rebalance_children. If the internal btree node has one entry, the code tries to copy all btree entries from the node's child to the node itself and then decrement the child's reference count. If the child node is shared (it has reference count > 1), we won't free it, so there would be two pointers to each of the grandchildren nodes. But the reference counts of the grandchildren is not increased, thus the reference count doesn't match the number of pointers that point to the grandchildren. This results in "device mapper: space map common: unable to decrement block" errors. Fix this bug by incrementing reference counts on the grandchildren if the btree node is shared.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-191
Status published
Products (28)
linux/Kernel 3.2.0 - 5.10.259linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.209linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.175linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.30linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.7linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.140linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.88linux
Linux/Linux < 3.2
Linux/Linux 3.2
Linux/Linux 3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4 - 09a65adc7d8bbfce06392cb6d375468e2728ead5
... and 18 more
Published May 28, 2026
Tracked Since May 28, 2026