CVE-2026-23388

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range Syzkaller reports a "general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data" This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which produces a negative metadata block offset. This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds access. The fix is to check that the offset is within range in squashfs_read_metadata. This will trap this and other cases.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01ee0bcc29864b78249308e8b35042b09bbf5fe3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c8ab092aec3ac4294940054772d30b511b16713
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b9499e7d677dd4366239a292238489a804936b2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b847d65f5b0065e02080c61fad93d57d6686383
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e9fa5ad37c9cbad73c165c7ff1e76e650825e7c