CVE-2026-53173

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53173
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53173.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-53173
Downstream
Published
2026-06-25T08:38:50.709Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:07:23.538616916Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosugemcmdstreamcopyand_validate()

The command stream parsing loop increments the index variable a second time when a 64-bit command word is encountered (bit 14 set), but does not re-check the loop bound before writing the second word:

for (i = 0; i < size / 4; i++) {
    bocmds[i] = cmds[0];
    if (cmd & 0x4000) {
        i++;
        bocmds[i] = cmds[1];   /* unchecked */
    }
}

The buffer bocmds is backed by a DMA allocation of exactly size bytes from drmgemdma_create(ddev, size), giving valid indices [0, size/4-1].

When i == size/4 - 1 on entry to an iteration and bit 14 of cmds[0] is set, bocmds[size/4-1] is written in bounds, i is then incremented to size/4, and bocmds[size/4] writes four bytes past the end of the allocation.

Userspace controls both the buffer contents and the size argument via the ioctl, making this a userspace-triggerable heap out-of-bounds write.

Fix by checking the incremented index against the buffer bound before the second write and returning -EINVAL if the buffer is too small to contain the extended command.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
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References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b
Fixed
db6cb3e35cebf487f9a78ebd4cfa4b83708ff40d
Fixed
c0837b9cf6eabbad8b8cbddaff1a46a6d0a2e29d

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53173.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.13

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53173.json"