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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 8, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 15, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520
f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520
f2fs_finish_read_bio+0xe1e/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:177
f2fs_read_end_io+0x6ab/0x2220 fs/f2fs/data.c:-1
bio_endio+0x1006/0x1160 block/bio.c:1792
submit_bio_noacct+0x533/0x2960 block/blk-core.c:891
submit_bio+0x57a/0x620 block/blk-core.c:926
blk_crypto_submit_bio include/linux/blk-crypto.h:203 [inline]
f2fs_submit_read_bio+0x12c/0x360 fs/f2fs/data.c:557
f2fs_submit_page_bio+0xee2/0x1450 fs/f2fs/data.c:775
read_node_folio+0x384/0x4b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1481
__get_node_folio+0x5db/0x15d0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1576
f2fs_get_inode_folio+0x40/0x50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1623
do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:425 [inline]
f2fs_iget+0x1209/0x9380 fs/f2fs/inode.c:596
f2fs_fill_super+0x8f5a/0xb2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5184
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694
get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717
f2fs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:5436
vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754
fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]
do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline]
do_new_mount+0x885/0x1dd0 fs/namespace.c:3839
path_mount+0x7a2/0x20b0 fs/namespace.c:4159
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x704/0x7f0 fs/namespace.c:4338
__x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4338
x64_sys_call+0x39f0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is: in f2fs_finish_read_bio(), we may access uninit data
in folio if we failed to read the data from device into folio, let's add
a check condition to avoid such issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 8, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 8, 2026
Last updated May 15, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(2nd percentile)

Weaknesses

Use of Uninitialized Resource

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-43349

GHSA ID

GHSA-9fq9-rx75-mm5g

Source code

No known source code

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