CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64086

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's pmbus/adm1266 driver, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists during block read operations. The read_buf declaration was one byte too small, causing out-of-bounds write when handling maximum-length responses (255 bytes + PEC byte).

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this to cause a system crash (DoS) or potentially escalate privileges by overwriting kernel memory.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit increasing buffer size to ADM1266_PMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 2).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) include PEC byte in pmbus_block_xfer read buffer adm1266_pmbus_block_xfer() sets up the read transaction with .buf = data->read_buf, .len = ADM1266_PMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 2, but read_buf in struct adm1266_data is declared as u8 read_buf[ADM1266_PMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 1]; For a max-length block response (length byte = 255 + up to 1 PEC byte), the i2c controller is told to write 257 bytes into a 256-byte buffer, putting one byte past the end of read_buf. The same response also makes the subsequent PEC compare if (crc != msgs[1].buf[msgs[1].buf[0] + 1]) read a byte beyond the array. Bump the read_buf declaration to ADM1266_PMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 2 so the buffer can hold the length byte, up to 255 payload bytes, and the PEC byte the i2c_msg length already accounts for.

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