# CVE-2026-55392: NILFS utilities - Undefined Behavior and Out-of-Memory via Unvalidated s\_log\_block\_size

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-06-18 · Updated: 2026-07-14

## Affected

- nilfs-dev nilfs-utils: through 2.3.0

## Description

NILFS utilities through 2.3.0, fixed in commit 26efb5d, nilfs_sb_is_valid() function fails to validate s_log_block_size field in NILFS2 superblock before bit-shift operations. Attackers supplying crafted NILFS2 images trigger undefined behavior through oversized shifts or out-of-memory conditions, crashing tools like nilfs-tune and dumpseg.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nilfs-dev/nilfs-utils/issues/26
- https://github.com/nilfs-dev/nilfs-utils/commit/26efb5daff0757365101035145331b0a5a85d9d9

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