CVE-2026-64318
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array
aix_partition() reads the physical volume descriptor into a fixed-size struct pvd and then scans its physical-partition-extent array:
pvd points at a single kmalloc()'d struct pvd whose ppe[] member holds a fixed ARRAY_SIZE(pvd->ppe) (1016) entries, but the loop runs up to the on-disk pp_count. pp_count is an unvalidated __be16 read straight from the descriptor, so a crafted AIX image with pp_count larger than 1016 drives the loop to read pvd->ppe[i] past the end of the allocation (up to 65535 entries, ~2 MB out of bounds).
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The partition scan runs without mounting anything, when a block device with a crafted AIX/IBM partition table appears (an attacker-supplied image attached with losetup -P, or a device auto-scanned by udev), via msdos_partition() -> aix_partition().
Clamp the scan to the number of entries the ppe[] array can hold.
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int numpps = be16_to_cpu(pvd->pp_count);
...
for (i = 0; i < numpps; i += 1) {
struct ppe *p = pvd->ppe + i;
...
lp_ix = be16_to_cpu(p->lp_ix);CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.1
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 5
- 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 escalation75 % - Impacto principal
T1005Data from Local Systemcollection65 % - Impacto secundario
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact60 %
Acceso local sin interacción del usuario (AV:L, PR:L, UI:N) → T1068. Lectura de memoria fuera de límites (out-of-bounds) del kernel expone datos; posible DoS por corrupción. Imagen AIX crafted dispara lectura de ~2 MB.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09861651617ba0fec089e8b9477439e68398c110
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dc0bfd2fe355fb930de63c2f2eb8ced8570c579
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44f37ee92fdcd377c41bdf6a31cdd8cc7d4c410e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4671bb74bba05fdd4acf670a35758c29e8c97b83
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eacdb1967378f5e5591cd27a2d8cdee2df1a599
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e9c09309e18fd9839ad007c238120353ca0cc4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce93228e2193a17d2c58b656e439bb39fe5c3af8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd94a779020f2ecc8b2607f4c20b34acb1763b9a
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