CVE-2026-63962

usb: typec: tcpm: bound altmode_desc[] per iteration in svdm_consume_modes()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

usb: typec: tcpm: bound altmode_desc[] per iteration in svdm_consume_modes()

svdm_consume_modes() checks pmdata->altmodes against the array size once before the loop over the count, but forgot to check the bound at every point in the loop.

In the well-behaved SVDM discovery flow this is harmless because each of at most SVID_DISCOVERY_MAX SVIDs contributes at most MODE_DISCOVERY_MAX modes, exactly filling altmode_desc[ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX]. But the CMDT_RSP_ACK handler in tcpm_pd_svdm() does not correlate an incoming ACK with any request the port actually sent. Once port->partner is set, an unsolicited Discover Modes ACK is consumed unconditionally. A broken or malicious port partner can therefore drive altmodes to ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX - 1 via the normal flow, and then send one extra Discover Modes ACK with seven VDOs. Because the pre-loop check passes, the loop could then writes up to five entries past altmode_desc[]. For mode_data_prime the next field in struct tcpm_port is the partner_altmode[] pointer array, which then receives partner-chosen SVID/VDO bytes.

Move the bound check inside the loop so the array can never be indexed past ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX regardless of how many VDOs the partner supplies or how the function was reached.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before f6694bac643c7ae25c0634b63e67d573ed31e5b7Affected
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before 816c6251409db28f1b875988fcbd2ff1764a81f0Affected
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before 845598b154b9a92e9d279fafafa9405c121ae805Affected
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before 4505f33dab56c274e82f47f94bf60a8cbf8f4b42Affected
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before cbad85b446c06adbc5e5bed565871bb918ce9d32Affected
  • 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 to before 3389c149c68c3fea61910ad5d34f7bf3bff44e32Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.19Affected
  • before 4.19Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.93 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.35 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.12 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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