CVE-2026-45999

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triggering requires locally providing a crafted image and reading from it, with no network path.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls the crafted image (a working base64 reproducer is in the commit); the illegal extent reliably forces outpages<inpages and the underflow on the first read with no race or uncontrolled condition.\nPR:N - Crafting the malicious image requires no privileges or account on the target system; the attacker merely supplies the image, consistent with the analogous crafted-image CVE-2026-43166 (PR:N).\nUI:R - A victim or automount service must mount the attacker-supplied EROFS image and access the file for the decompression path to be reached.\nS:U - The OOB access and resulting crash stay within the kernel's own security authority; no VM/IOMMU/sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The unsigned underflow produces an unbounded out-of-bounds read of the page-pointer array far past its end, and in the matching path wild kernel memory can be fed into the decompressed output read by userspace \u2014 per kernel guidance an unbounded OOB read is High.\nI:N - The flaw is strictly a read underflow (\"reads past the decompressed_pages array\"); 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