CVE-2026-89436

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But pcc->sinf[] is allocated with\nexactly pcc->num_sifr elements (valid indices 0..num_sifr-1), so that\nwrite needs num_sifr strictly greater than package.count to stay in\nbounds -- num_sifr == package.count passes the existing check but\nstill overflows by one element.\n\nThis is exactly the case probe()'s existing num_sifr++ workaround\n(\"Some DSDT-s have an off-by-one bug where the SINF package count is\none higher than the SQTY reported value\") is written to accommodate:\nwhen a DSDT's SINF package count equals SQTY+1, the workaround makes\nnum_sifr equal to package.count, which is precisely the boundary that\noverflows here. Found via UBSan (array-index-out-of-bounds) on\nhardware where HKEY.SQTY returns 37 and HKEY.SINF()'s package has 38\nelements: num_sifr becomes 38 after the += 1 workaround, the loop\ncorrectly fills indices 0..37, and the sentinel write then targets\nindex 38, one past the end -- a silent 4-byte heap overflow on kernels\nwithout CONFIG_UBSAN.\n\nTightening the rejection check to num_sifr <= package.count would\navoid the overflow but breaks probe() entirely on exactly this\nhardware, since num_sifr == package.count is the case the off-by-one\nworkaround exists to support. Nothing else in the driver reads this\nsentinel value back, so simply skip the write when there is no room\nfor it instead."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The overflow is reached by reading world-readable sysfs files under /sys/bus/acpi/devices/MAT00xx:00/ (numbatt, lcdtype, mute, sticky_key, eco_mode, brightness) and /sys/class/backlight/panasonic/, which call acpi_pcc_retrieve_biosdata(); there is no network or remote-peer path into this ACPI laptop driver.\nAC:L - On Panasonic Let's Note firmware where HKEY.SINF's package count equals SQTY+1, every sysfs or backlight read deterministically writes the sentinel one past pcc->sinf[]; no race is required. That DSDT off-by-one is a fixed property of the affected hardware being scored, not a per-attempt condition.\nPR:L - The triggering attributes are DEVICE_ATTR_RO (0444) or DEVICE_ATTR_RW (0644), so any unprivileged local user can read them and cause the out-of-bounds write with no capability, group membership, or init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker reads a sysfs attribute from their own process; no victim action such as mounting a filesystem, plugging hardware, or confirming a prompt is required.\nS:U - The 4-byte heap overflow corrupts host kernel slab memory belonging to the same kernel security authority that hosts the driver; it does not cross a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary.\nC:H - The off-by-one writes 0xffffffff one u32 past the kzalloc_flex pcc_acpi object, corrupting adjacent kmalloc slab contents including pointers on size-class-aligned allocations; that heap corruption can be leveraged for kernel information disclosure, so confidentiality is High.\nI:H - This is a repeatable 4-byte out-of-bounds heap write of the sentinel past pcc->sinf[]. Per kernel scoring guidance an OOB write is High because heap grooming can place a security-relevant object at the overwritten offset and turn it into a control-flow or privilege primitive.\nA:H - Writing past the kmalloc object can corrupt neighboring slab objects or metadata and produce a kernel oops or panic, and debug kernels trip KASAN/UBSAN on the counted-by overflow; any such crash is Availability High."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c"], "versions": [{"version": "a3d0dbd18ce908292607bb6cf37c978ece8a33d4", "lessThan": "a93df956ee4d903735b6d395362c839cb1dc07e3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a3d0dbd18ce908292607bb6cf37c978ece8a33d4", "lessThan": "329f10d8be193bf36af124e00b9dd6644cd71724", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c"], "versions": [{"version": "7.2", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "7.2", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.4", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.2", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.4"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.2", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a93df956ee4d903735b6d395362c839cb1dc07e3"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/329f10d8be193bf36af124e00b9dd6644cd71724"}], "title": "platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sentinel write past pcc->sinf[]", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: Linux kernel: panasonic-laptop driver heap overflow via out-of-bounds write", "id": "2532194", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2532194"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "4.1", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-787", "details": ["A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's `panasonic-laptop` driver. This vulnerability involves an out-of-bounds write when processing ACPI SINF packages, where a small amount of data is written beyond the intended memory buffer. This can lead to a heap overflow, which might cause system instability or a denial of service."], "name": "CVE-2026-89436", "public_date": "2026-09-11T19:43:06Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89436\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89436\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/329f10d8be193bf36af124e00b9dd6644cd71724\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a93df956ee4d903735b6d395362c839cb1dc07e3"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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