UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89656: Critical severity ubuntu/linux-azure vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: reject buckets with mismatched CRUSH ids crushdecode() stores bucket data by array slot, and the mapper later derives the per-bucket workspace index from the decoded bucket id. A malformed map can therefore make one bucket reuse another bucket's workspace by encoding an id different from -1 - slot. For uniform buckets, the second replica selection expands the source bucket's permutation into that aliased workspace buffer. If the source bucket is larger than the aliased bucket, the write runs past the smaller permutation array and can escape the kvmalloc'd CRUSH workspace. KASAN reports a slab OOB write of 4 bytes in bucketpermchoose(). Reject buckets whose encoded id does not match their array slot. Valid CRUSH maps already use the canonical negative id corresponding to the bucket slot, so this restores the invariant expected by work->work[-1 - in->id] without changing valid map behavior.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Compensating control
Reject CRUSH buckets whose encoded ID does not match their array slot, preserving the invariant that the workspace index is derived from the canonical negative bucket ID.