CVE-2026-90203

Squashfs: check block offset is not negative

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:07 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check block offset is not negative If a negative offset is read off disk (for example the offset into the decompressed fragment block), this will cause squashfs_copy_data() to perform an out of bounds access. Fix by checking if offset is negative, and returning 0. This matches existing behaviour where an offset beyond the block returns 0 bytes copied. To trigger this out of bounds access requires a crafted Squashfs filesystem and CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount it. Unprivileged users will not be able to mount such a filesystem, but once mounted, an unprivileged user can trigger the out of bounds access by reading the crafted file with the negative offset.

Affected

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

2.6.29f400e12656ab518be107febfe2315fb1eab5a342
Vendor states this is fixed in 3d2f0cb66c909ea2312cdef465165bb9a3ba2d84 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 95dadf366c117dcdca78a570e6832071deab1ecd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b169185d5c672b989985c6c2e38cafab2548ba88 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bbb2218eb072b0a15dc063929200183bd23c2344 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c2a126fca820ae74872da28de68dc74d4595dc4b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d0a3729d464fcf516416a41cf304c0c92126ee03 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e300eb5002925b29be803d2661af07266cfa267e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e4afd90bc7bf3dd477970c6c42bdd29ad3fda7fe (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.29 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (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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CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
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