GHSA-FQJM-FJ8X-6HP3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-25 12:31 – Updated: 2026-07-27 06:30In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: vme_user: bound slave read/write to the kern_buf size
The SLAVE-path helpers buffer_to_user() and buffer_from_user() copy 'count' bytes into/out of the fixed-size kern_buf (size_buf == PCI_BUF_SIZE == 0x20000, 128 KiB) using ppos as the offset, without bounding ppos + count against size_buf.
vme_user_write()/vme_user_read() only clamp count to the VME window size (image_size = vme_get_size(resource)), which VME_SET_SLAVE sets from the user-supplied slave.size -- validated against the VME address space (up to VME_A32_MAX = 4 GiB), not against PCI_BUF_SIZE. When the window exceeds 128 KiB, a write()/read() copies past the kern_buf allocation.
Clamp count against size_buf in both helpers, with an early return when ppos is already at/after the buffer end. ppos is >= 0 here (the caller rejects negative offsets), so size_buf - *ppos cannot wrap. This mirrors the existing clamp in the MASTER-path helpers resource_to_user() / resource_from_user(), and matches the read()/write() convention of a short transfer at end-of-buffer.
Found by static analysis (CodeQL taint tracking + CBMC bounded model checking) and confirmed dynamically under KASAN with the vme_fake bridge:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80 Write of size 262144 at addr ffff888004100000 by task trigger/68 _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80 vme_user_write+0x13e/0x240 [vme_user] vfs_write+0x1b8/0x7a0 ksys_write+0xb8/0x150
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-64449"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-07-25T10:17:29Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: vme_user: bound slave read/write to the kern_buf size\n\nThe SLAVE-path helpers buffer_to_user() and buffer_from_user() copy\n\u0027count\u0027 bytes into/out of the fixed-size kern_buf (size_buf ==\nPCI_BUF_SIZE == 0x20000, 128 KiB) using *ppos as the offset, without\nbounding *ppos + count against size_buf.\n\nvme_user_write()/vme_user_read() only clamp count to the VME window size\n(image_size = vme_get_size(resource)), which VME_SET_SLAVE sets from the\nuser-supplied slave.size -- validated against the VME address space (up\nto VME_A32_MAX = 4 GiB), not against PCI_BUF_SIZE. When the window\nexceeds 128 KiB, a write()/read() copies past the kern_buf allocation.\n\nClamp count against size_buf in both helpers, with an early return when\n*ppos is already at/after the buffer end. *ppos is \u003e= 0 here (the caller\nrejects negative offsets), so size_buf - *ppos cannot wrap. This mirrors\nthe existing clamp in the MASTER-path helpers resource_to_user() /\nresource_from_user(), and matches the read()/write() convention of a\nshort transfer at end-of-buffer.\n\nFound by static analysis (CodeQL taint tracking + CBMC bounded model\nchecking) and confirmed dynamically under KASAN with the vme_fake bridge:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80\n Write of size 262144 at addr ffff888004100000 by task trigger/68\n _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80\n vme_user_write+0x13e/0x240 [vme_user]\n vfs_write+0x1b8/0x7a0\n ksys_write+0xb8/0x150",
"id": "GHSA-fqjm-fj8x-6hp3",
"modified": "2026-07-27T06:30:38Z",
"published": "2026-07-25T12:31:36Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64449"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b495fa0d4927c88d88bf346bf311f2e26e860ed"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65358d89dc9f1c25d9364b2b3ef0f3b47717f9ed"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8eff7cd4817e14dbe3b9952cce55ef52d1d38940"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f32f38265014fac7f5dc9490fb01a638ce6e121"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adc8b9c30d716c362646edb45662aa1c641a154a"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e99f2df433c63c86c93de1e5f08f16e404388756"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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