In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO read in ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt()
ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt() performs an out-of-bounds MMIO read when the queue reader or writer index from hardware exceeds REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE (60).
A compromised service processor can trigger this by writing an out-of-range value to the reader or writer MMIO register before asserting an interrupt. Since writer is re-read from hardware on every loop iteration, it can also be set to an out-of-range value after the loop has already started.
The root cause is that get_queue_reader() and get_queue_writer() return raw readl() values that are passed directly into get_queue_entry(), which computes:
queue_begin + reader * sizeof(struct remote_input)
with no bounds check. This unchecked MMIO address is then passed to memcpy_fromio(), reading 8 bytes from unintended device registers. For sufficiently large values the address falls outside the PCI BAR mapping entirely, triggering a machine check exception.
Fix by checking both indices against REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE at the top of the loop body, before any call to get_queue_entry(). On an out-of-range value, reset the reader register to 0 via set_queue_reader() before breaking, so that normal queue operation can resume if the corrupted hardware state is transient.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46022
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07c4f18b303106e6b24492c12b95d48a4b985841
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ca75f6b74ec7f685464e5745ecfcf3a76d284e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22a16d3eafee92a165c756081587c95850127107
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b6e6ead556734bdc14024c5f837132b1e7a4b84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc7e9a74e32299d7e93e178ca482a0b59ef1595b
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cpgx-54rr-4jm6