CVE 7.8 HIGH

hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read_CVE-2026-43380

7.8 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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

hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read

The q54sj108a2_debugfs_read function suffers from a stack buffer overflow
due to incorrect arguments passed to bin2hex(). The function currently
passes 'data' as the destination and 'data_char' as the source.

Because bin2hex() converts each input byte into two hex characters, a
32-byte block read results in 64 bytes of output. Since 'data' is only
34 bytes (I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 2), this writes 30 bytes past the end
of the buffer onto the stack.

Additionally, the arguments were swapped: it was reading from the
zero-initialized 'data_char' and writing to 'data', resulting in
all-zero output regardless of the actual I2C read.

Fix this by:
1. Expanding 'data_char' to 66 bytes to safely hold the hex output.
2. Correcting the bin2hex() argument order and using the actual read count.
3. Using a pointer to select the correct output buffer for the final
simple_read_from_buffer call.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-43380
Source Linux
Published May 8, 2026 at 14:21
Modified May 20, 2026 at 16:08

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Affected Versions Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71
Linux Linux 5.11

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