Answer in brief
CVE-2026-89720 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in ubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=817aa094842dfc3a6b98c9582d4a647827f66201 <f76b79d6e42af20682495bccd22f72c7164b0018 || >=817aa094842dfc3a6b98c9582d4a647827f66201 <a1dc246f98bb94233effa4fa3ec7bf84700bb7d1 || >=817aa094842dfc3a6b98c9582d4a647827f66201 <83e1aa9f5f906c9b1f4949d0521f0f950a159d96 || >=817aa094842dfc3a6b98c9582d4a647827f66201 <95d27c1708bb6e8823c8e7c623f9abc2a91bf4bf | f76b79d6e42af20682495bccd22f72c7164b0018, a1dc246f98bb94233effa4fa3ec7bf84700bb7d1, 83e1aa9f5f906c9b1f4949d0521f0f950a159d96, 95d27c1708bb6e8823c8e7c623f9abc2a91bf4bf |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 5.3 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 11, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 11, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 11, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check ubifs_sb_verify_signature() bounds the on-disk ubifs_sig_node->len field before handing the signature payload to verify_pkcs7_signature(), but the check has the wrong sign: if (le32_to_cpu(signode->len) > snod->len + sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node)) The signature bytes start sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node) (UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ, 64 bytes) into the node, so the payload is at most snod->len - sizeof(struct ubifs_sig_node) bytes long. Adding the header size instead of subtracting it accepts a declared length up to 2 * UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ larger than the node actually holds -- past the end of c->sbuf, which is vmalloc(c->leb_size). verify_pkcs7_signature() -> pkcs7_parse_message() -> asn1_ber_decoder() is then handed that inflated length and reads beyond the allocation while walking the DER headers. The node length comes straight from the mounted image, so a crafted signed UBIFS image reaches this via ubifs_read_superblock() before the signature is cryptographically checked. snod->len is guaranteed to be >= UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ by the node scanner (c->ranges[UBIFS_SIG_NODE].min_len == UBIFS_SIG_NODE_SZ), so the corrected subtraction cannot underflow. Legitimately signed images are unaffected: a correct superblock never declares a signature longer than the node it is embedded in.
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