hwmon: occ: validate poll response sensor blocks
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: occ: validate poll response sensor blocks The OCC poll response parser walks a counted list of sensor data blocks. It used the static backing-array capacity as the parse boundary, but a transport response makes only data_length bytes current and valid. A truncated response can therefore make the parser consume a block header or block extent outside the current response. Use data_length as the parent boundary, prove the fixed poll header and each current block header before reading them, and prove the complete block before advancing. Keep parsed sensor metadata local until the complete response has passed validation, then publish it. Propagate malformed-response errors before publishing the OCC as active.
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 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. 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-2026-68340
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jq56-qr42-62xw
- 2026-11-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-07 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e6c72c37433640514db325408bd6913ad28fe69
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1902e9572901d37901e3db1f3f6b0885f4e49a66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/112525534ab5cff482d35897ca4ca11fd3a76f46
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54cb78eceb4e286ccd5a5c01a4632157860d47f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/538d862cc0dbd5c732fe26d5aad98eae039e6676
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b042e538e98b939fccfffc464e2c34c29f0e96ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e76e700fc6c46afb4e17aec099a1ea089b4a22
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Sources
- CVE-2026-68340 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-68340 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jq56-qr42-62xw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-68340 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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