CVE-2026-45994

ibmasm: fix OOB reads in command_file_write due to missing size checks

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Jun 14, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

ibmasm: fix OOB reads in command_file_write due to missing size checks

The command_file_write() handler allocates a kernel buffer of exactly count bytes and copies user data into it, but does not validate the buffer against the dot command protocol before passing it to get_dot_command_size() and get_dot_command_timeout().

Since both the allocation size (count) and the header fields (command_size, data_size) are independently user-controlled, an attacker can cause get_dot_command_size() to return a value exceeding the allocation, triggering OOB reads in get_dot_command_timeout() and an out-of-bounds memcpy_toio() that leaks kernel heap memory to the service processor.

Fix with two guards: reject writes smaller than sizeof(struct dot_command_header) before allocation, then after copying user data reject commands where the buffer is smaller than the total size declared by the header (sizeof(header) + command_size + data_size). This ensures all subsequent header and payload field accesses stay within the buffer.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 44ee19422aa82a6847594866de7e5a31e4ef98b3Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7b8a574da5d7ea99b943f7a3458a17a1d95e8838Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d50e2019c9d7c433f56d9dff65703eb904aa1fb1Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before a672682d39dd34e2b5ba4feb436723bed65125ffAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before aefc1a97da17d8309974690c8a03e439a91ebb1cAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ee5737891464030a189837467df3b81a273718adAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d0fb4d1dc43f8d5179917a2daaa82680993d4cdfAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 0eb09f737428e482a32a2e31e5e223f2b35a71d3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 5.10.258 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.140 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.86 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.27 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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