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CVE-2026-98839 (GCVE-0-2026-98839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:50 – Updated: 2026-10-18 15:50

Title

vt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection() In paste_selection(), the loop copies min_t(unsigned int, vc_sel.buf_len - pasted,tty->receive_room) bytes per iteration into tty_ldisc_receive_buf() and increments pasted += count. Because the selection mutex (vc_sel.lock) is dropped inside the loop Whenever the line discipline buffer fills up and paste_selection() sleeps on tty->write_wait, a concurrent TIOCLINUX (TIOCL_SETSEL) ioctl can replace vc_sel.buffer with a shorter selection and reduce vc_sel.buf_len below pasted. When paste_selection() resumes, vc_sel.buf_len - pasted underflows as an unsigned integer to a large positive value, causing tty_ldisc_receive_buf(ld, vc_sel.buffer + pasted, NULL, count) to read up to 4094 bytes out-of-bounds past the newly allocated vc_sel.buffer. Fix this by terminating the loop when pasted >= vc_sel.buf_len. Kernel stack trace (Linux 7.3.0-rc3): ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650 Read of size 4094 at addr ffff888101c58010 by task kworker/u17:1/65 Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0xa0 print_report+0x153/0x4c6 kasan_report+0xf1/0x120 kasan_check_range+0x11c/0x200 __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650 tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x66/0x110 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x6b/0xb0 flush_to_ldisc+0x1b4/0x410 process_one_work+0x6ff/0x1110 worker_thread+0x4a8/0xb70 kthread+0x307/0x3e0 ret_from_fork+0x3ed/0x680 </TASK> ==================================================================

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7100 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/037d7e3ca5c593092…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/619c6d7dd76fff15a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39495ef5d6f8019e6…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 , < 037d7e3ca5c593092f4b0d471eb869a85cbddde0 (git) Affected: e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 , < 619c6d7dd76fff15a9714fbf02ce299b737f01a2 (git) Affected: e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 , < 39495ef5d6f8019e62d65807f217a7ca8232727a (git) Affected: 54c522782fd11a720f959ee9cb5a15bb9580343d (git) Affected: 05c508edc9d0b44e4706d3c2cf14ee12aac210d2 (git) Affected: e5be0e24ffc7f5783a3864b5b958088ed15be9e8 (git) Affected: a4719f6d07b2c63223f7452c435c5f578f105cfe (git) Affected: b4492f1e7456bd162714c0ec2815c2749d930844 (git) Affected: 9a9c13ad21a8220cb70c9807a920f43520515f94 (git) Affected: 8c368d36878e2fc99285279fc5e14b3d3cb8947c (git) Affected: 3.16.83 , < 3.17 (semver) Affected: 4.4.216 , < 4.5 (semver) Affected: 4.9.216 , < 4.10 (semver) Affected: 4.14.173 , < 4.15 (semver) Affected: 4.19.109 , < 4.20 (semver) Affected: 5.4.25 , < 5.5 (semver) Affected: 5.5.9 , < 5.6 (semver)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-98839

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-18 16:17 - Updated: 2026-10-18 16:17

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References

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	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39495ef5d6f8019e62d65807f217a7ca8232727a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/619c6d7dd76fff15a9714fbf02ce299b737f01a2

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GHSA-RGR5-HHJ8-QQ6P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-18 18:32 – Updated: 2026-10-18 18:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection()

In paste_selection(), the loop copies min_t(unsigned int, vc_sel.buf_len - pasted,tty->receive_room) bytes per iteration into tty_ldisc_receive_buf() and increments pasted += count.

Because the selection mutex (vc_sel.lock) is dropped inside the loop Whenever the line discipline buffer fills up and paste_selection() sleeps on tty->write_wait, a concurrent TIOCLINUX (TIOCL_SETSEL) ioctl can replace vc_sel.buffer with a shorter selection and reduce vc_sel.buf_len below pasted.

When paste_selection() resumes, vc_sel.buf_len - pasted underflows as an unsigned integer to a large positive value, causing tty_ldisc_receive_buf(ld, vc_sel.buffer + pasted, NULL, count) to read up to 4094 bytes out-of-bounds past the newly allocated vc_sel.buffer.

Fix this by terminating the loop when pasted >= vc_sel.buf_len.

Kernel stack trace (Linux 7.3.0-rc3): ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650 Read of size 4094 at addr ffff888101c58010 by task kworker/u17:1/65 Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0xa0 print_report+0x153/0x4c6 kasan_report+0xf1/0x120 kasan_check_range+0x11c/0x200 __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650 tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x66/0x110 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x6b/0xb0 flush_to_ldisc+0x1b4/0x410 process_one_work+0x6ff/0x1110 worker_thread+0x4a8/0xb70 kthread+0x307/0x3e0 ret_from_fork+0x3ed/0x680 ==================================================================

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