CVE-2026-43349

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43349
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43349.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-43349
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-05-08T13:41:52Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:50:52Z
Summary
f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_finish_read_bio+0xe1e/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:177 f2fs_read_end_io+0x6ab/0x2220 fs/f2fs/data.c:-1 bio_endio+0x1006/0x1160 block/bio.c:1792 submit_bio_noacct+0x533/0x2960 block/blk-core.c:891 submit_bio+0x57a/0x620 block/blk-core.c:926 blk_crypto_submit_bio include/linux/blk-crypto.h:203 [inline] f2fs_submit_read_bio+0x12c/0x360 fs/f2fs/data.c:557 f2fs_submit_page_bio+0xee2/0x1450 fs/f2fs/data.c:775 read_node_folio+0x384/0x4b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1481 __get_node_folio+0x5db/0x15d0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1576 f2fs_get_inode_folio+0x40/0x50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1623 do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:425 [inline] f2fs_iget+0x1209/0x9380 fs/f2fs/inode.c:596 f2fs_fill_super+0x8f5a/0xb2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5184 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717 f2fs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:5436 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline] do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline] do_new_mount+0x885/0x1dd0 fs/namespace.c:3839 path_mount+0x7a2/0x20b0 fs/namespace.c:4159 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x704/0x7f0 fs/namespace.c:4338 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4338 x64_sys_call+0x39f0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is: in f2fs_finish_read_bio(), we may access uninit data in folio if we failed to read the data from device into folio, let's add a check condition to avoid such issue.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43349.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
855c54f1803e3ebc613677b4f389c7f92656a1fc
Fixed
59970b2586fef4b13e96527b9d232bed30b640cd
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
50ac3ecd8e05b6bcc350c71a4307d40c030ec7e4
Fixed
a10b89343d41ceee1af0ec38d3a74e526c77fa09
Fixed
7b9161a605e91d0987e2596a245dc1f21621b23f
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.18.13
Fixed
6.18.25
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.19.3
Fixed
6.20
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c386753db52b3a80afa6612bfdcb925aa5ca260f

Affected versions

v6.*
v6.18.13
v6.18.14
v6.18.15
v6.18.16
v6.18.17
v6.18.18
v6.18.19
v6.18.20
v6.18.21
v6.18.22
v6.18.23
v6.18.24
v6.19.10
v6.19.11
v6.19.12
v6.19.13
v6.19.14
v6.19.3
v6.19.4
v6.19.5
v6.19.6
v6.19.7
v6.19.8
v6.19.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43349.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.18.25
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43349.json"