Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2026-90161erofs: fix interlaced ztailpacking pclusters

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix interlaced ztailpacking pclusters On-disk sizes of interlaced pclusters should be block-aligned, and ztailpacking interlaced pclusters should be invalid at all. Currently, mkfs.erofs won't generate any interlaced pcluster with ztailpacking enabled, so this doesn't affect any existing valid filesystems. However, crafted images can contain invalid interlaced ztailpacking pclusters, resulting in an out-of-bounds read from a kmap'd page and copying irrelevant kernel memory into userspace-visible page cache.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-90161
Debian:13linux6.12.115-2DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90161
Debian:14linux7.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux7.0.0-42.42UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-aws7.0.0-1016.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-gcp7.0.0-1016.18UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-7.07.0.0-42.42~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-ibm7.0.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-bosno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-oem-7.07.0.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-oracle7.0.0-1015.16UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-riscv7.0.0-42.42.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-7.07.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-vmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90161

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux fdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before b634286a8628155557a4f473a9dbab18bb439a7bfdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before 795dca34a41545d377d19bc492b10bc789772410fdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before cd59f91cbc1e715cb5dc65773ee22123d70cb8f2fdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before ddb7ea4fd99bf6c4314d1dfca18aec6945ce8054fdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before 451027c642e752420e1a04237db9ce7b35cee595fdffc091e6f94602558bba712b51bc16f79fd6d5 – before 862427ebb81d1f6abbf74d799790e1694b37b1877d6ef8277e44c22f894d54d26ddb36c22d60712d6.0.16 – before 6.1
Linux Linux 6.1

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