CVE-2026-72089 (GCVE-0-2026-72089)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:52 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:40
VLAI
Title
accel/ivpu: Reject firmware log with size smaller than header
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/ivpu: Reject firmware log with size smaller than header fw_log_from_bo() validates the tracing buffer header_size and that the log fits within the BO, but never checks that log->size is at least log->header_size. fw_log_print_buffer() then computes: u32 data_size = log->size - log->header_size; which underflows to a near-U32_MAX value when firmware reports a log whose size is smaller than its header. That huge data_size defeats the log_start/log_end bounds clamps added by commit dd1311bcf0e6 ("accel/ivpu: Add bounds checks for firmware log indices"), so fw_log_print_lines() reads far past the small real data region of the BO. A size of 0 also makes fw_log_from_bo() advance the offset by 0, causing the callers to loop forever on the same header. Reject logs whose size is smaller than the header (which also rejects size == 0).
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60 , < 5592a207e158b738d9c1d27f208dbbea13ae7606 (git)
Affected: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60 , < dc9a1cda2e46d0254730a6f93cfe48532895f33c (git)
Affected: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60 , < 257321a1c036da417f5d9c47b95c7e58f62bf263 (git)
Affected: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60 , < 6920e62be4c969a68ce4ebc59da68c6cbc9512e5 (git)
Affected: d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60 , < ddb44baed257560f192b145ed36cf8c0a412de47 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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