CVE-2026-97916 (GCVE-0-2026-97916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 10:22
Modified
2026-10-21 12:53
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/ivpu: Validate firmware log buffer metadata The tracing log headers parsed by fw_log_print_buffer() reside in DMA-shared BOs that the NPU firmware can write to. fw_log_from_bo() validated log->header_size and log->size, but fw_log_print_buffer() re-read those same fields from shared memory afterwards, allowing a TOCTOU where firmware changes them between the check and the use, and making the host dereference out-of-bounds addresses while printing logs. Snapshot the validated values once with READ_ONCE() and pass them down explicitly in a new struct ivpu_fw_log_desc instead of re-reading them from the shared struct.
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Linux Linux Version: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60
Version: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60
Version: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60
Version: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60
Version: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60
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