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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-41647 EUVD-2026-28371GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8mGO-2026-5384

Incus: Nil-Pointer Dereference via S3 Bucket Import

Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc incus < 7.0.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 incus 7.0.0-1 —
Debian 13 incus 6.0.4-2+deb13u7 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 incus No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 incus 7.0.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lxc/incus all versions — GO-2026-5384
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6 all versions — GO-2026-5384
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6/cmd/incusd <= 6.23.0 — GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m

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