CVE-2026-89725

media: cec: stm32: prevent out-of-bounds write on RX overflow

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

media: cec: stm32: prevent out-of-bounds write on RX overflow

stm32_rx_done() appends each received CEC byte to rx_msg.msg[] using rx_msg.len as the write index, incrementing it on every RXBR (receive-byte-ready) interrupt without checking it against the buffer size:

cec->rx_msg.msg[cec->rx_msg.len++] = val & 0xFF;

rx_msg.msg[] is a fixed CEC_MAX_MSG_SIZE (16) byte array in struct cec_msg, and rx_msg.len is only reset on RXACKE/RXOVR or after a completed message (RXEND). The number of bytes received before RXEND is decided by the remote CEC device (it sets EOM), not by the driver. A peer that keeps sending bytes without ending the message drives RXBR repeatedly, pushing rx_msg.len past 16 and writing peer-controlled bytes out of bounds into the surrounding memory. This is reachable in normal operation once the driver has probed and receiving is enabled, from the IRQ thread, without any local privilege.

The length check in the CEC core runs on the consumer side, after the byte has been stored, so it does not prevent the overflow. Bound the index in the driver before the store, as the other platform CEC drivers already do (e.g. tegra_cec), dropping the excess bytes of an overlong frame.

Found by static analysis tool CodeQL.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before f2499b720ea9b874d58770885c6c2e8445a8c3efAffected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before 3df1a4026662121011187247897fe95fd84e8a3aAffected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before 37ac45f7d6e3a6a5dcf6452a0b7bad9a543e8344Affected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before 1b4fdefd788db990d1805feb5c7b2388de791ecdAffected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before c3edd7fb8e3692423a702705509947fc9c30b3d1Affected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before 0c260d3f97e52978a8c769bb095ac0901333a3acAffected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before a85ce3b175615c2e13bc01e8a1b6b6b6910fde57Affected
  • d69ae57453c80a2193bcdb3fd762efbec447eecf to before fb9dda38d4b9e90db07ed9a0ee2d35bf85494035Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.13Affected
  • before 4.13Not affected
  • 5.10.270 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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