Kernel hang or panic via repeated pseudo-bio completion
Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Sep 4, 2026
Use-after-free in Linux EROFS before 7.1.8 allows attackers to crash or hang the kernel via a crafted compressed fscache image. A split cached and uncached read issues several subreads on one unchained pseudo-bio, while erofs_fscache_bio_endio completes it for every subread, underflowing pending_bios and freeing the decompression queue early. Reachability requires EROFS fscache on-demand mode, a cachefiles daemon serving the image, and a compressed read crossing cached and uncached data.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Linux EROFS before 7.1.8 allows attackers to crash or hang the kernel via a crafted compressed fscache image. A split cached and uncached read issues several subreads on one unchained pseudo-bio, while erofs_fscache_bio_endio completes it for every subread, underflowing pending_bios and freeing the decompression queue early. Reachability requires EROFS fscache on-demand mode, a cachefiles daemon serving the image, and a compressed read crossing cached and uncached data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-80899
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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- Sep 4, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 4, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <7.1.8
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <c37460cd9b2fcb61ec66b7eb4fde737e65ec2a56
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <f6145794f17a27d25f8a84edb80731fb0e07c196
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