Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/overlay: don't leak fragment references when changeset init fails init_overlay_changeset() stores the number of initialized fragments in ovcs->count only on full success. When find_target() or the __symbols__ lookup fails partway through, the target and overlay references taken for the fragments initialized so far are never dropped: free_overlay_changeset() bounds its cleanup loop by ovcs->count, which is still 0. Store the running count on the error path so free_overlay_changeset() puts whatever was set up. The store is guarded by ovcs->fragments because on the allocation-failure path cnt still holds the counting pass total while there is no fragments array; everywhere else cnt only counts fully-initialized fragments.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund18 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4019

  Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-98866CVE-2026-98624CVE-2026-98745+326 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d62f0f2bc7edb12ed09f71203df0e47fa4efca4
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a23fb158ba517b77a2e5258263bdfdaa480f758
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/702b5db6e7b3865be70675d57d6fd7dde80d02b6
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a46f1917b320cc8762183b802301da02a191b6a
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/894573e2fdaeb1b15030b7eebc22615edf28a6cd