Unscored severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-99098
dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow in inline mode with large tag size
New
–
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow in inline mode with large tag size
In inline mode, dm_integrity_check and dm_integrity_inline_recheck
compute the checksum of each block into an on-stack buffer of
HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE bytes. integrity_sector_checksum pads its result
with zeroes up to the tag size, so if the tag size is larger than
HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, the padding runs past the end of the buffer. With
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR the kernel panics in dm_integrity_check on the
first read.
Enlarge both buffers to hold MAX_TAG_SIZE bytes, as commit b93b6643e9b5
("dm integrity: fix a crash with unusually large tag size") did for
integrity_metadata.
Note that this is not a security bug because the buffer overflow can only
be triggered by root.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 8% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 3c7aad85aeb9e28386672e3a009aa2e61f751b86; fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 4f0ee735dc68e3e6c4dd9a666d7f7047163c4165; fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before f49cd7820cd0a96f20e1aa2708adb002124e38a7; fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 764b683a6180fd72c931c13fea98d383506a3475; 6.11 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99098
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99098
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c7aad85aeb9e28386672e3a009aa2e61f751b86
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f0ee735dc68e3e6c4dd9a666d7f7047163c4165
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/764b683a6180fd72c931c13fea98d383506a3475
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49cd7820cd0a96f20e1aa2708adb002124e38a7
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