CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93186
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/mbox: Clamp mailbox output allocation to the payload size
CXL_MEM_SEND_COMMAND bounds the user's in.size to the mailbox payload
size but leaves out.size unbounded, then cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor() calls
kvzalloc(out.size). A large out.size drives a huge allocation, above
INT_MAX it WARNs and taints, and with panic_on_warn=1 it panics.
The transport __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd() already clamps the response copy
to min(out.size, payload_size, device len), so the output buffer is
never written beyond payload_size. Clamp the allocation to payload_size
too, matching the RAW path.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31d4841eca7c4b75751ca96d24339e19303337f2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a13db9f899d149c3aab24abcb668121cfda5a4f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4e11c731d6bee3b87315e055a1ca417c92dc1fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d40574b9b272ade32d0d77b140d990e7547f5f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5d2bbf0300f46307948864fbb97bce5097f4fe2 git.kernel.org