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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-99063",
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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.388Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-23T12:23:04.655Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-30T12:41:27.735Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm ioctl: don't let data_start run past the buffer\n\nstruct dm_ioctl has seven bytes of trailing padding, so the smallest\nbuffer userspace is allowed to ask for, offsetof(struct dm_ioctl, data),\nis seven bytes shorter than sizeof(struct dm_ioctl).\n\nget_result_buffer() sets data_start to sizeof(struct dm_ioctl) without\nlooking at how big the buffer actually is. Ask for the minimum and\ndata_start ends up seven bytes past the end. Callers add it to\ndata_size, and ctl_ioctl() copies that much back to userspace:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_to_user+0xad/0xd0\n  Read of size 312 at addr ffff8880169e4c00 by task repro-dm/140\n   ctl_ioctl+0x5e3/0xcb0\n   dm_ctl_ioctl+0x25/0x40\n  allocated 305-byte region [ffff8880169e4c00, ffff8880169e4d31)\n\nA DM_LIST_DEVICES with data_size set to 305 is enough to hit it, and the\nseven bytes that leak are whatever sat next to the allocation.\n\nClamp data_start to the buffer size.\n\nNote that this is not a security bug because the out-of-bounds read can\nonly be triggered by root."
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