CVE-2026-93079 (GCVE-0-2026-93079)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:11
Modified
2026-10-19 09:05
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer cxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's fwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is told to write cxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count bytes into rpc_out->payload, which is a separate user-controlled value. Nothing bounds count against out_len, so a small out_len with a large count overflows the kvzalloc()'d buffer. A heap OOB write reachable from FWCTL_RPC. Reject requests where count exceeds the available payload room, before allocating.
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Linux Linux Version: 5908f3ed6dc209e5c824e63afda7545805f75a7e
Version: 5908f3ed6dc209e5c824e63afda7545805f75a7e
Version: 5908f3ed6dc209e5c824e63afda7545805f75a7e
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer\n\ncxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user\u0027s\nfwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is told to write\ncxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count bytes into rpc_out-\u003epayload, which is a\nseparate user-controlled value. Nothing bounds count against out_len, so\na small out_len with a large count overflows the kvzalloc()\u0027d buffer.\nA heap OOB write reachable from FWCTL_RPC.\n\nReject requests where count exceeds the available payload room, before\nallocating."
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              "value": "AV:L - The overflow is triggered by ioctl(FWCTL_RPC) on /dev/fwctl/fwctlN via fwctl_fops_ioctl()-\u003efwctl_cmd_rpc()-\u003ecxlctl_fw_rpc()-\u003ecxlctl_get_feature(). The mismatched inputs are local userspace fields fwctl_rpc.out_len and cxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count on a CXL_MBOX_OP_GET_FEATURE (0x0501) RPC, not bytes from a network or CXL-peer protocol message.\nAC:L - The caller sets both fwctl_rpc.out_len and get_feat_in.count in one GET_FEATURE RPC. cxlctl_get_feature() kvzallocs out_len then passes count to cxl_get_feature() as the mailbox output length, so a short out_len with count larger than the payload room overflows on memcpy_fromio() in __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd(). Feature size is learned first via GET_SUPPORTED_FEATURES; no race is required.\nPR:L - CXL_MBOX_OP_GET_FEATURE is accepted at FWCTL_RPC_CONFIGURATION; fwctl_cmd_rpc() checks CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE_FULL, and cxlctl_open_uctx() is a no-op. Opening /dev/fwctl/fwctlN is sufficient, and that node is routinely granted to management/VMM users without init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker opens /dev/fwctl/fwctlN and issues ioctl(FWCTL_RPC) with opcode CXL_MBOX_OP_GET_FEATURE themselves; no victim action such as mounting a volume or opening a file is required.\nS:U - __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd() memcpy_fromio()s the Get Feature mailbox payload into the host kernel heap object rpc_out-\u003epayload allocated by cxlctl_get_feature(). The corruption stays in the host kernel CXL/fwctl path and is not a guest-to-host, IOMMU, or other changed-scope boundary.\nC:H - cxl_get_feature() tells the device to write get_feat_in.count bytes (u16, up to 65535) into rpc_out-\u003epayload, overflowing the kvzalloc(out_len) object via memcpy_fromio(). That heap out-of-bounds write is memory corruption that can be turned into an arbitrary-read primitive.\nI:H - The same GET_FEATURE path is a kernel heap out-of-bounds write: __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd() copies the mailbox payload into feat_out past the end of the out_len-sized allocation. The attacker chooses count and can SET_FEATURE first on a changeable user feature, so adjacent heap objects can be overwritten.\nA:H - Overflowing the kvzalloc buffer in cxlctl_get_feature() corrupts adjacent heap metadata and oopses, and out_len==0 makes kvzalloc return ZERO_SIZE_PTR so the mailbox write through rpc_out-\u003epayload faults immediately. Either outcome is a repeatable kernel panic."
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