CVE-2026-46107
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow There's a bug in dm-thin in the function rebalance_children. If the internal btree node has one entry, the code tries to copy all btree entries from the node's child to the node itself and then decrement the child's reference count. If the child node is shared (it has reference count > 1), we won't free it, so there would be two pointers to each of the grandchildren nodes. But the reference counts of the grandchildren is not increased, thus the reference count doesn't match the number of pointers that point to the grandchildren. This results in "device mapper: space map common: unable to decrement block" errors. Fix this bug by incrementing reference counts on the grandchildren if the btree node is shared.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Windows Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.12.88-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 7.0.7-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 7.0.7-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09a65adc7d8bbfce06392cb6d375468e2728ead5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12161e03d33afce781f68fa11cc6060538862fad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/323d252a4a378834e4fe68298ca61cfc5dd3a460
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ec0debbcfd43596e32c1239e993de06a704e04c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85311a585a26640760cd0f3349ab9f2905691044
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46107
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-46107
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06f6aededd792a754cd677c02b3d3016d868c2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49b41c9eb7c6ff00df27cd49cea210abbadd8ad
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.