iio: accel: bmc150: clamp the device-reported FIFO frame count
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: iio: accel: bmc150: clamp the device-reported FIFO frame count __bmc150_accel_fifo_flush() copies the number of samples the device reports in its hardware FIFO into an on-stack buffer u16 buffer[BMC150_ACCEL_FIFO_LENGTH * 3]; which is sized for at most BMC150_ACCEL_FIFO_LENGTH (32) samples. The frame count is read from the FIFO_STATUS register and only masked to its 7 valid bits: count = val & 0x7F; so it can be 0..127. The only other limit applied to it is the optional caller-supplied sample budget: if (samples && count > samples) count = samples; which does not constrain count on the flush-all path (samples == 0), and leaves it well above 32 whenever samples is larger. count samples are then transferred into buffer[]: bmc150_accel_fifo_transfer(data, (u8 *)buffer, count); bmc150_accel_fifo_transfer() reads count * 6 bytes through regmap, so a malfunctioning, malicious or counterfeit accelerometer (or an attacker tampering with the I2C/SPI bus) that reports up to 127 frames writes up to 762 bytes into the 192-byte buffer: a stack out-of-bounds write of up to 570 bytes that clobbers the stack canary, saved registers and the return address. Clamp count to BMC150_ACCEL_FIFO_LENGTH, the number of samples buffer[] is sized for, before the transfer, mirroring the watermark clamp already done in bmc150_accel_set_watermark(). A well-formed flush reports at most BMC150_ACCEL_FIFO_LENGTH frames, so legitimate devices are unaffected.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.96, 6.18.39, 7.1.4, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
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-2026-64504
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4j8x-6qx9-p4gc
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5a9f521e0a49a0266200fd535b32a9668ecb33b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fe0531dd73eff1de0f2584cb77716d645e548d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0e6d924a5484e005cae5aff6a0aa07a22f3c9ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfffc98f3de92e0f76be7c7b72e63ac1776a6dbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f4a4ca0ac3a933c750569a771c079a290b0721
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e766526827acd542bcd36c20c4d5f397e0f6521
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a3cd8fd65e15029eb90f1e510045b1bb071175
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce0e1cae26096fe959a0da5563a6d6d5a801d5fb
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Sources
- CVE-2026-64504 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-64504 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4j8x-6qx9-p4gc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-64504 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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