In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: prevent copying too big compressed lzo segment
Compressed length can be corrupted to be a lot larger than memory
we have allocated for buffer.
This will cause memcpy in copy_compressed_segment to write outside
of allocated memory.
This mostly results in stuck read syscall but sometimes when using
btrfs send can get #GP
kernel: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x841551d5c1000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
kernel: CPU: 17 PID: 264 Comm: kworker/u256:7 Tainted: P OE 5.17.0-rc2-1 #12
kernel: Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
kernel: RIP: 0010:lzo_decompress_bio (./include/linux/fortify-string.h:225 fs/btrfs/lzo.c:322 fs/btrfs/lzo.c:394) btrfs
Code starting with the faulting instruction
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0:* 48 8b 06 mov (%rsi),%rax <-- trapping instruction
3: 48 8d 79 08 lea 0x8(%rcx),%rdi
7: 48 83 e7 f8 and $0xfffffffffffffff8,%rdi
b: 48 89 01 mov %rax,(%rcx)
e: 44 89 f0 mov %r14d,%eax
11: 48 8b 54 06 f8 mov -0x8(%rsi,%rax,1),%rdx
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb110812efd50 EFLAGS: 00010212
kernel: RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 000000009ca264c8 RCX: ffff98996e6d8ff8
kernel: RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 000841551d5c1000 RDI: ffffffff9500435d
kernel: RBP: ffff989a3be856c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff98996e6d8000
kernel: R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 000841551d5c1000
kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98a09d640000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 00001e9f984d9ea8 CR3: 000000014971a000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:
kernel: end_compressed_bio_read (fs/btrfs/compression.c:104 fs/btrfs/compression.c:1363 fs/btrfs/compression.c:323) btrfs
kernel: end_workqueue_fn (fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1923) btrfs
kernel: btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:326) btrfs
kernel: process_one_work (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 ./include/linux/jump_label.h:212 ./include/trace/events/workqueue.h:108 kernel/workqueue.c:2312)
kernel: worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2455)
kernel: ? process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2397)
kernel: kthread (kernel/kthread.c:377)
kernel: ? kthread_complete_and_exit (kernel/kthread.c:332)
kernel: ret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:301)
kernel:
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it