https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:57:26 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-90137 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check</p> <p>The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values] while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package.</p> <p>The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count. The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all elem + pos_values accesses.</p> <p>A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().</p> <p>Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check</p> <p>The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values] while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package.</p> <p>The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count. The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all elem + pos_values accesses.</p> <p>A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().</p> <p>Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2026-90137