Medium [CVE-2026-53369] reject descriptors with oversized CRC length
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53369 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: reject descriptors with oversized CRC length udf_read_tagged() skips CRC verification when descCRCLength + sizeof(struct tag) exceeds the block size.
A crafted UDF image can set descCRCLength to an oversized value to bypass CRC validation entirely; the descriptor is then accepted based solely on the 8-bit tag checksum, which is trivially recomputable. Reject such descriptors instead of silently accepting them.
A legitimate single-block descriptor should never have a CRC length that exceeds the block. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem.
A remote attacker could craft a malicious UDF image with an oversized Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) length. This could allow the attacker to bypass the integrity validation of UDF descriptors, leading to the acceptance of potentially corrupted or malicious data based on a weak checksum.
Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-354.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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