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CVE-2026-63960

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: wcove: don't write past struct pd_message in wcove_read_rx_buffer() wcove_rea…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: wcove: don't write past struct pd_message in wcove_read_rx_buffer() wcove_read_rx_buffer() copies the PD RX FIFO into the caller's struct pd_message with for (i = 0; i regmap, USBC_RX_DATA + i, msg + i); which has two problems: USBC_RXINFO_RXBYTES() is a 5-bit field (max 31) while struct pd_message is 30 bytes (__le16 header + __le32 payload[PD_MAX_PAYLOAD], packed). The byte count latched in RXINFO is the number of bytes the port partner put on the wire, so a malicious partner that transmits a 31-byte frame can drive the loop one byte past the destination if the WCOVE BMC receiver does not enforce the PD object-count limit in hardware. The existing FIXME flagged this as unverified. Independently, regmap_read() takes an unsigned int * and stores a full unsigned int at the destination. Passing the byte pointer msg + i means each iteration writes four bytes; the high three are zero (val_bits is 8) and are normally overwritten by the next iteration, but the final iteration's high bytes are not. With RXBYTES == 30 the i == 29 iteration already writes three zero bytes past msg, which sits on the IRQ thread's stack in wcove_typec_irq(). Clamp the loop to sizeof(struct pd_message) and read each register into a local before storing only its low byte, so the copy can never exceed the destination regardless of what RXINFO reports.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-07-19 16:17
Modified: 2026-10-30 14:31
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 14:40 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.15 <5.10.259, ≥5.11 <5.15.210, ≥5.16 <6.1.176, ≥6.2 <6.6.143, ≥6.7 <6.12.93, ≥6.13 <6.18.35

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e632098d0521257ea965bbd6fde807d9bee5c8a
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f9d50c8b02b4af0646aa892465080f9061fc89c
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4af7ad0e6d7aa4403dbb1dac7b9659b0421efcaa
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cd0e7ac4eefbdb330f8c72694fe74e63df65552
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6899f5b6d7b83ce79a3d331dc61dd31bf73f9c22
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0e4b8b3c6b7607a16932556eaaca5d5cf69f192
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e94933dc41b87503bf585c8c6d53d740620eceb9
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2a1edc0bd142edabc6c85d88713f2bc178dd317

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 14:40 UTC · record ↗

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