In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow
If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to
add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction
since we did some metadata updates before.
This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID
field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the
transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user
could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user
has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume.
Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a
transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem
semaphore in exclusive (write) mode.
A test case for fstests will follow soon.
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| Weaknesses | CWE-284 CWE-658 |
Fri, 08 May 2026 14:45:00 +0000
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before. This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume. Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode. A test case for fstests will follow soon. | |
| Title | btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow | |
| First Time appeared |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-08T14:21:14.357Z
Reserved: 2026-05-01T14:12:56.005Z
Link: CVE-2026-43359
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-08T15:16:46.717
Modified: 2026-05-08T15:16:46.717
Link: CVE-2026-43359
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Updated: 2026-05-08T17:30:13Z