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xfs: fix wild memcpy access when formatting ondisk rtrefcount btree roots

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix wild memcpy access when formatting ondisk rtrefcount btree roots LOLLM noticed that the inode btree root formatting methods copy too many bytes -- there's only one set of keys in node blocks, not two. This causes memory corruption of whatever's beyond the buffers.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.18.55, 7.2.9
CVEs
CVE-2026-98447
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 02:01 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

xfs: fix wild memcpy access when formatting ondisk rtrefcount btree roots

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Oct 2026, 15:14 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix wild memcpy access when formatting ondisk rtrefcount btree roots LOLLM noticed that the inode btree root formatting methods copy too many bytes -- there's only one set of keys in node blocks, not two. This causes memory corruption of whatever's beyond the buffers.

osv:CVE-2026-98447

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.18.55, 7.2.9

Complete source record
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