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TI-2026-70787 Aliases CVE-2026-19576

Stack out-of-bounds write in Zephyr Goodix GT911 touch driver

Priority LOW 31CWE-787Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Physical
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-787 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Zephyr from 4.0.0 before 4.5.0 has a stack out-of-bounds write in the Goodix GT911 touch controller driver (CWE-787). The driver uses the device-reported touch point count as a loop bound without checking it against the array size, so a controller reporting more points than configured writes past the stack array. An attacker with physical access to the I2C touch controller, or the ability to substitute it, can write attacker-chosen data to the stack and possibly hijack control flow at kernel privilege.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-04

Description from the CNA

The Goodix GT9xx input driver in drivers/input/input_gt911.c reads the touch point count from the controller's status register and masks it with GT911_TOUCH_POINTS_MSK (0x0F), yielding a value of 0..15. In gt911_process() that value is used directly as the loop bound for filling point_reg[], a stack array sized to CONFIG_INPUT_GT911_MAX_TOUCH_POINTS, whose Kconfig range is 1..5 with a default of 1. No other check constrains the count; the driver relied only on a comment asserting that the controller had been programmed at init to report no more points than configured. Each loop iteration issues an I2C read of eight bytes straight into point_reg[i], so a controller that reports more points than the array holds causes up to 112 bytes of peer-supplied data to be written past the end of the array, over the stack frame of gt911_process() in the system workqueue thread. Two further loops then read out of bounds from the same array. Triggering it requires control of, or the ability to substitute, the I2C touch controller — plausible on the many supported boards where the GT9xx panel is a pluggable display module or shield rather than an on-PCB part; a spoofed device need only answer the init probes with a supported product ID and a checksum-valid config blob. The same overflow can also occur non-adversarially, with a GT9271-class panel that ignores the driver's touch-count programming and reports up to ten points, or with bus corruption of the single status byte. The impact is an out-of-bounds stack write with fully attacker-chosen content executing at kernel privilege, i.e. potential control-flow hijack on the host MCU, in addition to out-of-bounds reads and crashes. The attack vector is physical/local hardware access only; there is no network, USB, or syscall path to the defect. The fix clamps the reported count with min() against CONFIG_INPUT_GT911_MAX_TOUCH_POINTS before any array indexing.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00169 6th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed zephyr (zephyrproject): 4.5.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
zephyrprojectzephyr4.0.0 to before 4.5.04.5.0Patch availableCNA
  • zephyr Vendorzephyrproject Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.5.0 Fixed in 4.5.0 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——zephyrproject
  • cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·zephyrproject

Remediation

Upgrade Zephyr to version 4.5.0, which clamps the reported touch point count to the configured maximum before array indexing.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-04

  • Fix · CNA zephyr (zephyrproject) Fixed in 4.5.0

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    zephyrproject zephyr 4.5.0

    5 records Highest priority Priority LOW 5 LOW

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    • TI-2026-70796 Use-after-free in Zephyr Bluetooth L2CAP CoC channel teardownPriority LOW 34
    • TI-2026-70788 Out-of-bounds read in Zephyr IPv6 route forwardingPriority LOW 31

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-11 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-19576
  2. 2026-10-12 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
  3. 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed
  4. 2026-11-04 Fix available: [email protected] · CNA

References

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