CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63956

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's cypress_m8 USB serial driver can cause memory corruption or NULL-pointer dereference. The issue occurs when a malicious device reports a too small interrupt-out endpoint max packet size.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash (DoS) or potentially escalate privileges through controlled kernel memory corruption.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that enforces a minimum packet size of 8 bytes for the interrupt-out endpoint.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: cypress_m8: fix memory corruption with small endpoint Make sure that the interrupt-out endpoint max packet size is at least eight bytes to avoid user-controlled slab corruption or NULL-pointer dereference should a malicious device report a smaller size.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS