CVE-2026-99098: dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow in inline mode with large tag size

Published Oct 26, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow in inline mode with large tag size

In inline mode, dmintegritycheck and dmintegrityinlinerecheck compute the checksum of each block into an on-stack buffer of HASHMAXDIGESTSIZE bytes. integritysectorchecksum pads its result with zeroes up to the tag size, so if the tag size is larger than HASHMAXDIGESTSIZE, the padding runs past the end of the buffer. With CONFIGSTACKPROTECTOR the kernel panics in dmintegritycheck on the first read.

Enlarge both buffers to hold MAXTAGSIZE bytes, as commit b93b6643e9b5 ("dm integrity: fix a crash with unusually large tag size") did for integritymetadata.

Note that this is not a security bug because the buffer overflow can only be triggered by root.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Linux kernel dm-integrity to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch b93b6643e9b5

Event History

Oct 26, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·02:52 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·02:52 PM
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