CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80584

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's s390/qeth driver, qeth_snmp_command() and qeth_l3_arp_query() allocate a buffer sized by a user-supplied length without checking a lower bound, leading to out-of-bounds write. The fix rejects buffers smaller than udata_offset before allocation.

Risk Assessment

A local user could exploit this vulnerability to write past the allocated memory, potentially leading to system crash or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing the fix for CVE-2026-80584.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls qeth_snmp_command() and qeth_l3_arp_query() allocate a buffer sized by a user-supplied length (udata_len) without checking a lower bound, then set udata_offset to a fixed non-zero value and pass both to a reply callback. The callback bounds-checks the copy with if ((udata_len - udata_offset) < len) Both fields are u32, so a udata_len smaller than udata_offset makes the subtraction wrap and the check pass, and the following memcpy() writes past the allocation. A udata_len of 0 also yields ZERO_SIZE_PTR from kzalloc(), which the existing NULL check does not catch. Reject buffers smaller than udata_offset before allocating, so the callback subtraction can no longer underflow.

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