CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-90137

HighCVSS 7.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel hp-bioscfg module (platform/x86), a missing bounds check was fixed when parsing password encodings from ACPI packages, which could cause out-of-bounds reads and passing an invalid pointer to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().

Risk Assessment

Can cause incorrect data or system crash.

Recommendation

Apply a kernel patch that adds the proper index check.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values] while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package. The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count. The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all elem + pos_values accesses. A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str(). Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].

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