CVE-2026-89471 Affecting linux-6.12 package, versions <6.12.111-1~deb12u1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LINUX612-20507032
  • published5 Oct 2026
  • disclosed11 Sept 2026

Introduced: 11 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 linux-6.12 to version 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.12 package and not the linux-6.12 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

power: supply: cros_usbpd-charger: bound the EC-reported port count

cros_usbpd_charger_probe() reads two port counts from the EC and uses one of them, num_charger_ports, as the loop bound when populating a fixed-size array:

struct port_data *ports[EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS];	/* 8 entries */
...
for (i = 0; i &lt; charger-&gt;num_charger_ports; i++)
    charger-&gt;ports[charger-&gt;num_registered_psy++] = port;

Both num_usbpd_ports (from EC_CMD_USB_PD_PORTS) and num_charger_ports (from EC_CMD_CHARGE_PORT_COUNT) are u8 values reported by the EC. The only validation is a sanity check that compares the two EC-reported values against each other:

if (num_charger_ports &lt; num_usbpd_ports ||
    num_charger_ports &gt; num_usbpd_ports + 1)
    return -EPROTO;

It never checks either count against EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS, the size of the ports[] array. A malfunctioning, malicious or compromised EC that reports num_usbpd_ports == num_charger_ports == N for any N > 8 (for example both 255) passes this check, and the loop then writes N pointers into the 8-entry ports[] array embedded in the devm_kzalloc()'d charger_data, overflowing it by up to 255 - 8 = 247 entries (~1976 bytes): a slab out-of-bounds write.

Reject a port count larger than the ports[] array can hold.

CVSS Base Scores

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