CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80578
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: core: Fix pointer desynchronization in fb_io_read()
In fb_io_read(), if copy_to_user() performs a partial copy (e.g., due to
a faulty user buffer), the loop adjusts the chunk size 'c' and updates
the remaining 'count'. However, the hardware 'src' pointer has already
been eagerly advanced by the original chunk size.
If the loop is allowed to continue, the read will resume from an
incorrect, over-advanced offset. Since the remaining 'count' was only
decremented by the successful bytes, this desynchronization causes the
next iterations to execute more hardware reads than originally bounded,
eventually leading to out-of-bounds I/O reads.
Fix this by breaking out of the loop immediately upon a partial
copy_to_user(). A partial copy indicates a faulty user buffer, making
subsequent read attempts futile. Breaking out ensures we return the
number of successfully read bytes without risking out-of-bounds hardware
accesses in subsequent mismatched iterations.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42a6d8126c194133eafab2b0fd5c8668ebfcba5b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42bc07b4e5a3c8a02a433388f562a8f46d093e11 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7110b7b794a2aac2c5cf8eb06ebf2af724c74d50 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ff87a01ae3a8cd0208f7499386998223a8b5dba git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cc73be40c6f028f1ee3f438ace46afe666dbae git.kernel.org