UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43349
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_finish_read_bio+0xe1e/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:177 f2fs_read_end_io+0x6ab/0x2220 fs/f2fs/data.c:-1 bio_endio+0x1006/0x1160 block/bio.c:1792 submit_bio_noacct+0x533/0x2960 block/blk-core.c:891 submit_bio+0x57a/0x620 block/blk-core.c:926 blk_crypto_submit_bio include/linux/blk-crypto.h:203 [inline] f2fs_submit_read_bio+0x12c/0x360 fs/f2fs/data.c:557 f2fs_submit_page_bio+0xee2/0x1450 fs/f2fs/data.c:775 read_node_folio+0x384/0x4b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1481 __get_node_folio+0x5db/0x15d0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1576 f2fs_get_inode_folio+0x40/0x50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1623 do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:425 [inline] f2fs_iget+0x1209/0x9380 fs/f2fs/inode.c:596 f2fs_fill_super+0x8f5a/0xb2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5184 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717 f2fs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:5436 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline] do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline] do_new_mount+0x885/0x1dd0 fs/namespace.c:3839 path_mount+0x7a2/0x20b0 fs/namespace.c:4159 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x704/0x7f0 fs/namespace.c:4338 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4338 x64_sys_call+0x39f0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The root cause is: in f2fs_finish_read_bio(), we may access uninit data in folio if we failed to read the data from device into folio, let's add a check condition to avoid such issue.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_finish_read_bio+0xe1e/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:177 f2fs_read_end_io+0x6ab/0x2220 fs/f2fs/data.c:-1 bio_endio+0x1006/0x1160 block/bio.c:1792 submit_bio_noacct+0x533/0x2960 block/blk-core.c:891 submit_bio+0x57a/0x620 block/blk-core.c:926 blk_crypto_submit_bio include/linux/blk-crypto.h:203 [inline] f2fs_submit_read_bio+0x12c/0x360 fs/f2fs/data.c:557 f2fs_submit_page_bio+0xee2/0x1450 fs/f2fs/data.c:775 read_node_folio+0x384/0x4b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1481 __get_node_folio+0x5db/0x15d0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1576 f2fs_get_inode_folio+0x40/0x50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1623 do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:425 [inline] f2fs_iget+0x1209/0x9380 fs/f2fs/inode.c:596 f2fs_fill_super+0x8f5a/0xb2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5184 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717 f2fs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:5436 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline] do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline] do_new_mount+0x885/0x1dd0 fs/namespace.c:3839 path_mount+0x7a2/0x20b0 fs/namespace.c:4159 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x704/0x7f0 fs/namespace.c:4338 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4338 x64_sys_call+0x39f0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The root cause is: in f2fs_finish_read_bio(), we may access uninit data in folio if we failed to read the data from device into folio, let's add a check condition to avoid such issue.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b9161a605e91d0987e2596a245dc1f21621b23f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59970b2586fef4b13e96527b9d232bed30b640cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b9161a605e91d0987e2596a245dc1f21621b23f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a10b89343d41ceee1af0ec38d3a74e526c77fa09
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-43349
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8488-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8488-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8507-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8569-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8603-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43349