Incus: Nil-Pointer Dereference via S3 Bucket Import

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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.

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7 May 2026 13:02:15 UTC

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7 May 2026 13:54:39 UTC

Observed here

23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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May 7, 2026, 1:02:15 PM (timezone not stated)

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May 7, 2026, 1:54:39 PM (timezone not stated)

Observed here

28 Oct 2026 05:10:35 UTC

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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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7 May 2026 14:16:03 UTC

Source modified

26 Oct 2026 21:10:00 UTC

Observed here

27 Oct 2026 10:10:19 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

### Summary Missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. ### Details It was found that TransferManager.UploadAllFiles iterates over tar entries but only checks for io.EOF from tr.Next(). When tr.Next() returns a non-EOF error, such as unexpected EOF from a truncated archive, the header hdr is nil and the code continues to access hdr.Name, causing a nil-pointer dereference that panics the daemon. This may allow the Incus daemon to be crashed during S3 bucket restore if a truncated or corrupted backup archive is provided. A panic can occur when a malformed archive produces a non-EOF tar read error after the first entry. Any caller of UploadAllFiles that processes attacker-controlled archive content may be affected. Affected File: [https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/v6.22.0/…server/storage/s3/transfer_manager.go#L127](https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/v6.22.0/internal/server/storage/s3/transfer_manager.go#L127) The tar-iteration loop only checks for EOF: Affected Code: ``` for { hdr, err := tr.Next() if err == io.EOF { break // End of archive. } // Skip index.yaml file if hdr.Name == "backup/index.yaml" { ``` When tr.Next() returns a non-EOF error, hdr is nil. The code does not check for this case and immediately dereferences hdr.Name. This was confirmed as follows: Command: ``` go test ./test/fuzz -run='FuzzS3BucketUploadTarParsing/s3_nil_deref_truncated_tar' -count=1 -v ``` Output: ``` === RUN FuzzS3BucketUploadTarParsing === RUN FuzzS3BucketUploadTarParsing/s3_nil_deref_truncated_tar s3_bucket_upload_fuzz_test.go:82: UploadAllFiles panicked: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference --- FAIL: FuzzS3BucketUploadTarParsing/s3_nil_deref_truncated_tar (0.00s) FAIL ``` It is recommended to add a non-EOF error check after tr.Next(). Proposed Fix: ``` hdr, err := tr.Next() if err == io.EOF { break } if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Error reading backup archive: %w", err) } ``` A patch is available at https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0. ### Credits This issue was discovered and reported by the team at 7asecurity (https://7asecurity.com/)

Source published

4 May 2026 19:38:48 UTC

Source modified

25 Jun 2026 23:11:43 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC

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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Incus has Nil-Pointer Dereference via S3 Bucket Import in github.com/lxc/incus

Source published

25 Jun 2026 22:34:31 UTC

Source modified

25 Jun 2026 23:01:11 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC

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OSV · upstream source license applies

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