Critical severity · published Aug 10, 2026
CVE-2026-68159
libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE
9.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE
__decode_pg_temp() decodes an user-controlled length but only rejects
values large enough to overflow the allocation; it does not bound it to
CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE. The helper backs both pg_temp and pg_upmap decoding, and
apply_upmap()/get_temp_osds() later copy the decoded list into the fixed-size
on-stack array struct ceph_osds.osds[CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE]. A monitor that sends
an OSDMap with a pg_temp/pg_upmap entry longer than 32 thus causes a stack
out-of-bounds write.
An OSD set for a single PG can never exceed CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE, so reject longer
entries at decode time. The bound is well below the old overflow threshold, so
it also covers the allocation-size overflow the previous check guarded against.
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ceph_pg_to_up_acting_osds
Write of size 4 ... by task exploit
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
ceph_pg_to_up_acting_osds (net/ceph/osdmap.c:2617 net/ceph/osdmap.c:2833)
calc_target (net/ceph/osd_client.c:1638)
__submit_request (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2394)
ceph_osdc_start_request (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2490)
ceph_osdc_call (net/ceph/osd_client.c:5164)
rbd_dev_image_probe (drivers/block/rbd.c:6899)
do_rbd_add (drivers/block/rbd.c:7138)
...
kernel BUG at net/ceph/osdmap.c:2670!
[ idryomov: do the same in __decode_pg_upmap_items() ]
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 55% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before 66eec4af1e080b695229c9a20635648a6d12fedf; a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before 4daf06456677177f2a6044729abac59c1b49e87b; a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before d5650ddbd4d42c1a916c8fe1a4c4cb573ef810a1; a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before 42bc06c67d94d5f2a6b33294b0c4b07d8a47c515; a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before ebdf4b4f3b1474079980a2e5cd79ad65fb54db57; a303bb0e58345fe9f7ab2f82b90266f2b5036058 before 590b07ceea138d49c9b64f65d263aa902d3b4730; +3 more · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68159
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68159
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42bc06c67d94d5f2a6b33294b0c4b07d8a47c515
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4daf06456677177f2a6044729abac59c1b49e87b
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/590b07ceea138d49c9b64f65d263aa902d3b4730
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66eec4af1e080b695229c9a20635648a6d12fedf
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f00f9cf2be293efe899db67dc5272e3a9c62717
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5650ddbd4d42c1a916c8fe1a4c4cb573ef810a1
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