Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/qaic: Address potential out-of-bounds read in resp_worker() Although 'commit 2feec5ae5df7 ("accel/qaic: Handle DBC deactivation if the owner went away")' fixes the scenario it was intended for by walking the message and only decoding QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV, if present, it skipped over the bounds checking code that is included in decode_message(). This could lead to issues such as reading past the slab allocation's end, infinite loops or kernel panics. For those issues to happen, a malformed wire message is needed to be sent from the device. Instead of duplicating the bounds checking code already present in decode_message(), use the function inside resp_worker().
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/12deeade460d47031267256ba07add51cc7eabd0 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5807a65f301b6c0e73a2dc03dd6f5e80a2861b72 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab243f74ab4084ca5c8dec608cb5b0deb27db067 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c72e81ee46bdd4c221114d6e9515e9b4647616d7 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4b64488f3deca63f7fbc7d7c3835b2e668003f9 Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.1
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 2 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-125
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