Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-53173

Linux Linux

accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate()

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate() The command stream parsing loop increments the index variable a second time when a 64-bit command word is encountered (bit 14 set), but does not re-check the loop bound before writing the second word: for (i = 0; i < size / 4; i++) { bocmds[i] = cmds[0]; if (cmd & 0x4000) { i++; bocmds[i] = cmds[1]; /* unchecked */ } } The buffer bocmds is backed by a DMA allocation of exactly size bytes from drm_gem_dma_create(ddev, size), giving valid indices [0, size/4-1]. When i == size/4 - 1 on entry to an iteration and bit 14 of cmds[0] is set, bocmds[size/4-1] is written in bounds, i is then incremented to size/4, and bocmds[size/4] writes four bytes past the end of the allocation. Userspace controls both the buffer contents and the size argument via the ioctl, making this a userspace-triggerable heap out-of-bounds write. Fix by checking the incremented index against the buffer bound before the second write and returning -EINVAL if the buffer is too small to contain the extended command.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.19 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b ≤ v < db6cb3e35cebf487f9a78ebd4cfa4b83708ff40d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b ≤ v < c0837b9cf6eabbad8b8cbddaff1a46a6d0a2e29d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-06-25
Last updated
2026-08-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.16%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
5.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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