FKIE_CVE-2026-72047
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:21 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit
ca8210_test_int_driver_write() and ca8210_test_int_user_read() exchange
a kmalloc'd buffer pointer through a struct kfifo, but pass a literal
'4' as the byte count to kfifo_in()/kfifo_out().
This is correct on 32-bit (pointer = 4 bytes), but on 64-bit only the
low 4 bytes of the 8-byte pointer are written into the FIFO. The reader
then reads back 4 bytes into an 8-byte local pointer variable, leaving
the upper 4 bytes uninitialized stack data. The first dereference of
the reconstructed pointer (fifo_buffer[1]) accesses an arbitrary kernel
address and generally results in an oops.
Use sizeof(fifo_buffer) so the byte count matches pointer width on every
architecture.
The driver has no architecture restriction in Kconfig, so any 64-bit
build with CONFIG_IEEE802154_CA8210_DEBUGFS=y is exposed. Issue has
been latent since the driver was added in 2017 because it is most
commonly deployed on 32-bit MCUs.
Found via a custom Coccinelle semantic patch hunting for short-byte
kfifo I/O on byte-mode kfifos used to shuttle pointers.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"affectedData": [
{
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
"product": "Linux",
"programFiles": [
"drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c"
],
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"vendor": "Linux",
"versions": [
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"lessThan": "2c1664ccfae653979b38788211240b5a1ee317ed",
"status": "affected",
"version": "ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
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"status": "affected",
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"versionType": "git"
},
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"versionType": "git"
},
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"versionType": "git"
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"versionType": "git"
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"versionType": "git"
},
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"versionType": "git"
}
]
},
{
"defaultStatus": "affected",
"product": "Linux",
"programFiles": [
"drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c"
],
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"vendor": "Linux",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "4.12"
},
{
"lessThan": "4.12",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "5.10.261",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "5.15.212",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.1.178",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.6.145",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.12.97",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.18.40",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "7.1.5",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"lessThanOrEqual": "*",
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "7.2",
"versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
}
]
}
],
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
}
],
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit\n\nca8210_test_int_driver_write() and ca8210_test_int_user_read() exchange\na kmalloc\u0027d buffer pointer through a struct kfifo, but pass a literal\n\u00274\u0027 as the byte count to kfifo_in()/kfifo_out().\n\nThis is correct on 32-bit (pointer = 4 bytes), but on 64-bit only the\nlow 4 bytes of the 8-byte pointer are written into the FIFO. The reader\nthen reads back 4 bytes into an 8-byte local pointer variable, leaving\nthe upper 4 bytes uninitialized stack data. The first dereference of\nthe reconstructed pointer (fifo_buffer[1]) accesses an arbitrary kernel\naddress and generally results in an oops.\n\nUse sizeof(fifo_buffer) so the byte count matches pointer width on every\narchitecture.\n\nThe driver has no architecture restriction in Kconfig, so any 64-bit\nbuild with CONFIG_IEEE802154_CA8210_DEBUGFS=y is exposed. Issue has\nbeen latent since the driver was added in 2017 because it is most\ncommonly deployed on 32-bit MCUs.\n\nFound via a custom Coccinelle semantic patch hunting for short-byte\nkfifo I/O on byte-mode kfifos used to shuttle pointers."
}
],
"id": "CVE-2026-72047",
"lastModified": "2026-08-17T06:18:02.747",
"metrics": {},
"published": "2026-08-15T06:21:13.933",
"references": [
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/093aacb0c56d5c693e3169a0224062e77c3fd0c0"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fe2643d0b24ca3cdd61a31a45c2d3233dc6cbfe"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2059c28bd725beded01277cdf1f67be33e714323"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c1664ccfae653979b38788211240b5a1ee317ed"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65dc342274a01616f5c17105f7360a3b4bfd7a3d"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d7f7bcf225b2d566176bf6229dbd1252940cb3c"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87dab14a4f68895d6f4d798e6ee3556cd64e8c72"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ce67fa6a5e6929f5414e933ff9665176c2bce6"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"vulnStatus": "Received"
}
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