Unscored severity · published Oct 28, 2026
CVE-2026-99135
dm-integrity: fix infinite loop on discard with large tag size
New
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CVSS
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EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-integrity: fix infinite loop on discard with large tag size
When integrity_metadata handles a discard, it fills a buffer with
DISCARD_FILLER and writes it over the tags, max_blocks blocks at a
time. If the kmalloc fails, the buffer is the on-stack array
checksums_onstack and max_size is set to HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE. So if the
tag size is larger than HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, max_blocks is zero, bi_size
is never decremented and the loop never terminates.
Fix this by using sizeof(checksums_onstack) as max_size. The array has
MAX_TAG_SIZE bytes since commit b93b6643e9b5 ("dm integrity: fix a
crash with unusually large tag size"), so max_blocks is at least 1.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473 before fc512700f1413fed652dac22fa1c4e837210b9c0; 84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473 before 251b44b424920df9204e88a81fb3f78fa48ddd99; 84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473 before 18d80c77b4c7dd20699e81cedfbbff4e9d198f28; 5.7 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99135
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99135
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc512700f1413fed652dac22fa1c4e837210b9c0
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/251b44b424920df9204e88a81fb3f78fa48ddd99
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d80c77b4c7dd20699e81cedfbbff4e9d198f28
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