leds: uleds: Fix potential buffer overread
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: leds: uleds: Fix potential buffer overread The name string supplied by userspace is not guaranteed to be null-terminated, so using strchr() on it might result in a buffer overread. The same thing will happen when said string is used by the LED class device. Fix this by using strnchr() instead and explicitly check that the name string is properly null-terminated.
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, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
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-2026-72241
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p332-q22m-rchg
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a84c59121dfdc7b324f72dc5012aa8fe5e7d2d7b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bb89e23729f3a59592d699a437bb001f24b8f67
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ad6f6c9209e5777b896def9876708853ae26d0d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bf529571cca60fb8af65d6d034bdbbc99a9127c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91ac9fdac7385cbc98aeae55b4e5302125497a2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dd51d84a9502553e58beade72823258871b8111
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/263ccdd627caeda6e980ed3c6e32bb4fd6b380b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c19fe864f667afc49d1391d764e20b66555bcf7a
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72241 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72241 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p332-q22m-rchg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72241 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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