CVE-2026-93198

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at load The writeback worker follows the persisted dirty_tail chain, which is decoded from the cache device independently of the key_tail chain that cache_replay() walks and bounds. A crafted image, whose on-media fields are authenticated only by a crc32c with a fixed seed, can aim dirty_tail at a chain of last ksets that never terminates, so cache_writeback_fn() re-arms itself with no delay forever. Walk the dirty_tail chain once at load with the same hop cap cache_replay() uses and fail the table load with -EIO if it does not reach an end within n_segs hops.

CVSS

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References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4822a030929e0e77aa380722dc42e3e4c9edd346
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58d620ee9e01d4bdbceaf2ae1450d307a2a9d58b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8195cf3f4a82ef49d9b0651c507ed0784caf23fb

Configurations

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History

17 Sep 2026, 17:18

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-17 17:18

Updated : 2026-09-17 17:18

NVD link : CVE-2026-93198

Mitre link : CVE-2026-93198

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-93198

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Products Affected

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CWE

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