CVE-2026-80710

s390/dasd: Fix undersized format-check buffer

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 28, 2026 at 06:53 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dasd: Fix undersized format-check buffer fmt_buffer_size in dasd_eckd_check_device_format() is declared as int, even though one of the multiplicands, sizeof(struct eckd_count), is a size_t. The expression trkcount * rpt_max * sizeof(struct eckd_count) is therefore correctly evaluated at 64-bit width, but the result is silently truncated when it is stored back into the 32-bit fmt_buffer_size variable. For a sufficiently large track range (start_unit/stop_unit are caller-controlled) this truncation yields a buffer size far smaller than the number of tracks actually requested. kzalloc() then succeeds with an undersized allocation, while the subsequent channel program build still operates on the untruncated track count and writes past the end of that buffer. Compute the buffer size with check_mul_overflow() and keep it in a size_t, so that a value that no longer fits results in -EINVAL instead of a silently truncated allocation size.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.78fd575200db5b53f6ea6818dd017f1b43190db12
Vendor states this is fixed in 7f40b346462f563a0d6e841a77b5163d2a882a04 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 87f3389cd3920714c53e704778f7ca7f1cf0c39c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9f88dda2f22927d22498801a92cab6a9424eaf86 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in aca18289c86f22d3fc2f3f6ff615286e7b1702f6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e16e0fc54120cee3c6f0362de95aab6792865857 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.103 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.44 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.151 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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