Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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- published29 May 2026
- disclosed28 May 2026
Introduced: 28 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-46169 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6 kernel-doc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size
Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_strcasecmp(). The root cause is that hfs_brec_read() doesn't validate that the on-disk record size matches the expected size for the record type being read.
When mounting a corrupted filesystem, hfs_brec_read() may read less data than expected. For example, when reading a catalog thread record, the debug output showed:
HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: rec_len=520, fd->entrylength=26 HFSPLUS_BREC_READ: WARNING - entrylength (26) < rec_len (520) - PARTIAL READ!
hfs_brec_read() only validates that entrylength is not greater than the buffer size, but doesn't check if it's less than expected. It successfully reads 26 bytes into a 520-byte structure and returns success, leaving 494 bytes uninitialized.
This uninitialized data in tmp.thread.nodeName then gets copied by hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() and used by hfsplus_strcasecmp(), triggering the KMSAN warning when the uninitialized bytes are used as array indices in case_fold().
Fix by introducing hfsplus_brec_read_cat() wrapper that:
- Calls hfs_brec_read() to read the data
- Validates the record size based on the type field:
- Fixed size for folder and file records
- Variable size for thread records (depends on string length)
- Returns -EIO if size doesn't match expected
For thread records, check against HFSPLUS_MIN_THREAD_SZ before reading nodeName.length to avoid reading uninitialized data at call sites that don't zero-initialize the entry structure.
Also initialize the tmp variable in hfsplus_find_cat() as defensive programming to ensure no uninitialized data even if validation is bypassed.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46169
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a790974ff7e533acbceca06c7d02f22bf96d4d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93e8d613f1a01b6637f387cc93f184cf7fb881d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a420904450962a562ad053a41a53a27755021b48
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6b592275aeff184aa82fcf6abccd833fb71b393
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91bbd6193c70a02c50c22e0fb1f60c3c5bd053a