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CVE-2026-89838

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 EPSS 0.17%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-16 · Last synced 2026-10-13

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The vulnerability affects the Linux kernel's F2FS filesystem, where recovery logging of filenames may read beyond the allocated buffer due to a lack of NUL-termination, potentially exposing sensitive raw inode data. This could lead to information disclosure during recovery operations. System administrators and developers working with Linux kernel-based systems should prioritize addressing this issue to mitigate potential data leakage risks.

CVE
CVE-2026-89838
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
0.17%
Linux

Original NVD Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: limit recovery filename logging to stored length F2FS stores recovery filenames as a length plus a fixed-size i_name buffer. The buffer is not NUL-terminated, but recover_inode() and recover_dentry() print it with %s. For a 255-byte filename, recovery logging can read past i_name into the following raw inode fields. Print the name with a precision bounded by i_namelen and F2FS_NAME_LEN.