CVE-2026-31714

EUVD-2026-26523
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888127f70830 (size 16):
  comm "syz.0.23", pid 6144, jiffies 4294943712
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    3c af 57 72 5b e6 8f ad 6e 8e fd 33 42 39 03 ff  <.Wr[...n..3B9..
  backtrace (crc 925f8a80):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4520 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4844 [inline]
    __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5237 [inline]
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x3bd/0x560 mm/slub.c:5250
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
    fscrypt_setup_filename+0x15e/0x3b0 fs/crypto/fname.c:364
    f2fs_setup_filename+0x52/0xb0 fs/f2fs/dir.c:143
    f2fs_rename+0x159/0xca0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:961
    f2fs_rename2+0xd5/0xf20 fs/f2fs/namei.c:1308
    vfs_rename+0x7ff/0x1250 fs/namei.c:6026
    filename_renameat2+0x4f4/0x660 fs/namei.c:6144
    __do_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6173 [inline]
    __se_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6168 [inline]
    __x64_sys_renameat2+0x59/0x80 fs/namei.c:6168
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is in commit 40b2d55e0452 ("f2fs: fix to create selinux
label during whiteout initialization"), we added a call to
f2fs_setup_filename() without a matching call to f2fs_free_filename(),
fix it.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 1%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
6.6.23 ≤
𝑥
< 6.6.136
linuxlinux_kernel
6.7.11 ≤
𝑥
< 6.8
linuxlinux_kernel
6.8.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.9
linuxlinux_kernel
6.9 ≤
𝑥
< 6.12.84
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13 ≤
𝑥
< 6.18.25
linuxlinux_kernel
6.19 ≤
𝑥
< 7.0.2
linuxlinux_kernel
7.1:rc1
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.170-3
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.174-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.257-1
fixed
forky
7.0.10-1
fixed
sid
7.0.12-2
fixed
trixie
6.12.86-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.90-2
fixed