CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74551
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (nzxt-smart2) DMA-align output buffer
Sashiko reports:
When send_output_report() calls hid_hw_output_report(), the underlying USB
HID core calls usb_interrupt_msg() which maps this buffer directly for DMA.
When the DMA mapping flushes or invalidates the cacheline, it will corrupt
the adjacent variables (mutex, update_interval) that were modified
concurrently by the CPU. This causes memory corruption due to cacheline
sharing on non-coherent CPU architectures (such as ARM or MIPS). The DMA
API debugging tool (CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG) will trigger runtime warnings
for this violation.
Any operation that triggers send_output_report() (like setting a fan speed
or updating the interval) causes the USB DMA mapping. On systems with
non-coherent caches, this structural bug causes immediate and deterministic
memory corruption.
Align the output buffer to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to fix the problem.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/080bbf42faf77e6489ab30d5114c5f8f6ccbb1b8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2332d35aaf206c17acf848522817252732596676 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a76bc1b8e717ee3fc0d84f15ac51490ca5f76f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a2dbce5da2d2163a5b684acf68a0e54582ff0fa git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70ad543ce81f368411b6c721265a3b2d7ab4fda4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81a6593b1c8dfb2694cd0ce39be01212d2b8436c git.kernel.org