CVE-2026-46107
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow
There's a bug in dm-thin in the function rebalance_children. If the internal btree node has one entry, the code tries to copy all btree entries from the node's child to the node itself and then decrement the child's reference count.
If the child node is shared (it has reference count > 1), we won't free it, so there would be two pointers to each of the grandchildren nodes. But the reference counts of the grandchildren is not increased, thus the reference count doesn't match the number of pointers that point to the grandchildren. This results in "device mapper: space map common: unable to decrement block" errors.
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Fix this bug by incrementing reference counts on the grandchildren if the btree node is shared.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.8
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.13%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 2
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation90 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact75 % - Impacto secundario
T1565.001Stored Data Manipulationimpact70 %
Vulnerabilidad local en kernel Linux (AV:L, PR:L) que permite escalada de privilegios mediante corrupción de metadatos en dm-thin. Causa DoS y corrupción de datos del sistema de archivos.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-191
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09a65adc7d8bbfce06392cb6d375468e2728ead5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12161e03d33afce781f68fa11cc6060538862fad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/323d252a4a378834e4fe68298ca61cfc5dd3a460
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ec0debbcfd43596e32c1239e993de06a704e04c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85311a585a26640760cd0f3349ab9f2905691044
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b719d12cb94df345e9ad2715fd0abe9afcaeb111
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06f6aededd792a754cd677c02b3d3016d868c2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49b41c9eb7c6ff00df27cd49cea210abbadd8ad
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