CVE-2026-89584

block: validate user space vectors during extraction

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:44 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: validate user space vectors during extraction The bio-based drivers don't necessarily check the alignment split, and stacking block drivers don't always handle a misalignment detected after submitting the bio. Validate user vectors against the device's dma_alignment as the bio is built from the iov_iter, rejecting misaligned early with -EINVAL.

Affected

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

5ff3f74e145adc79b49668adb8de276446acf6be6.18
Vendor states this is fixed in 14b007e178811db72fbb1ebb3535160db6ec1e6a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d44a97a3b1c00cc571245124e23e5ceb0a0225a0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (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.

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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