CVE-2026-31694
fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
Vexday Risk Score
41Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Proof of concept
Popular PoC on GitHub (14 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
01 May 2026Published on NVD
30 Jun 2026Public PoC
Weaponization speed
60 daysto first PoC
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the
server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single
page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits
in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page
if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.
As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with
namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB
page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes
into the following kernel page.
Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into
the readdir cache.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linuxpublic PoCs found — 1
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