CVE-2026-90161
Published Sep 17, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix interlaced ztailpacking pclusters On-disk sizes of interlaced pclusters should be block-aligned, and ztailpacking interlaced pclusters should be invalid at all. Currently, mkfs.erofs won't generate any interlaced pcluster with ztailpacking enabled, so this doesn't affect any existing valid filesystems. However, crafted images can contain invalid interlaced ztailpacking pclusters, resulting in an out-of-bounds read from a kmap'd page and copying irrelevant kernel memory into userspace-visible page cache.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is CVE-2026-90161? +
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix interlaced ztailpacking pclusters
On-disk sizes of interlaced pclusters should be block-aligned, and
ztailpacking interlaced pclusters should be invalid at all.
Currently, mkfs.erofs won't generate any interlaced pcluster with
ztailpacking enabled, so this doesn't affect any existing valid
filesystems.
However, crafted images can contain invalid interlaced ztailpacking
pclusters, resulting in an out-of-bounds read from a kmap'd page and
copying irrelevant kernel memory into userspace-visible page cache.
How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2026-90161? +
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