thunderbolt: property: Reject dir_len < 4 to prevent size_t underflow
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thunderbolt: property: Reject dir_len < 4 to prevent size_t underflow On the non-root path, __tb_property_parse_dir() takes dir_len from entry->length (u16 widened to size_t). Two distinct OOB conditions follow when entry->length < 4: 1. The non-root path begins with kmemdup(&block[dir_offset], sizeof(*dir->uuid), ...) which always reads 4 dwords from dir_offset. tb_property_entry_valid() only enforces dir_offset + entry->length <= block_len, so a crafted entry with dir_offset close to the end of the property block and entry->length in 0..3 passes that gate but lets the UUID copy run off the block (e.g. dir_offset = 497, dir_len = 3 in a 500-dword block reads block[497..501]). 2. After the kmemdup, content_len = dir_len - 4 underflows size_t to ~SIZE_MAX, nentries becomes SIZE_MAX / 4, and the entry walk runs OOB on each iteration until an entry fails validation or the kernel oopses on an unmapped page. Reject dir_len < 4 on the non-root path *before* the UUID kmemdup, which closes both holes. Also move INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dir->properties) up to immediately after the dir allocation so the new error-return path (and the existing uuid-alloc failure path) calling tb_property_free_dir() sees a walkable list rather than the zero-initialized NULL next/prev that list_for_each_entry_safe() would oops on.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.259, 5.15.210, 6.1.176, 6.6.143, 6.12.93, 6.18.35, 7.0.12, 7.1
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-63892
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-c25w-638m-wrp7
- 2026-11-03 CVSS score changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37abc4504fa19d8f9f1e87792e8a2b8fdb308e40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2d4d51cf5785815fa4e91e0c019e3eb2506a84c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de618299190b418291609e6921557253bd417e25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5506c825f14d810f0690b1f4367cb7249ebb387a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/542a13890b742099c461d70920e97b14e568f6ec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d548179adcc87e1bc66b17e00352a1f536e76065
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bec49ca55e08fb085cc4318f24b1b37eaab28cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de21b59c29e31c5108ddc04210631bbfab81b997
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Sources
- CVE-2026-63892 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-63892 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-c25w-638m-wrp7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-63892 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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