{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation",
    "id" : "2516501",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516501"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\ndm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation\nThere's a buffer overflow in dm-verity-fec:\nif (neras && *neras <= v->fec->roots)\nfio->erasures[(*neras)++] = i;\nThis allows *neras to reach roots + 1 (the post-increment pushes it past\nroots). This value is then passed as no_eras to decode_rs8(). Inside the\nRS decoder (lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c:113-121), the erasure locator\npolynomial loop writes lambda[j] where j can reach nroots + 1 — one\nelement past the end of lambda[] (which is sized nroots + 1, valid\nindices 0..nroots). The out-of-bounds write lands on syn[0], corrupting\nthe syndrome buffer.", "A flaw was found in the dm-verity component of the Linux kernel. A buffer overflow occurs during Forward Error Correction (FEC) calculation, allowing an attacker to write past the end of an allocated buffer. This out-of-bounds write can corrupt the syndrome buffer, potentially leading to system instability or other undefined behavior." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:65334",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:6.12.0-211.53.1.el10_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72098\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72098\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081524-CVE-2026-72098-cbda@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-72098",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}