Bug 2532213 (CVE-2026-89587)

Summary: CVE-2026-89587 kernel: ACPI: pfr_update: fix stack buffer overflow in query_capability()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ACPI Platform Firmware Runtime Update (pfr_update) component. The `query_capability()` function, responsible for handling ACPI buffer objects from firmware, performs an unchecked memory copy operation. If the firmware provides an oversized buffer, a stack buffer overflow occurs, leading to memory corruption. This could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 21:25:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: pfr_update: fix stack buffer overflow in query_capability()

query_capability() copies four ACPI buffer objects returned by the
firmware _DSM into fixed-size u8[16] fields in struct
pfru_update_cap_info using memcpy with the firmware-supplied length:

  memcpy(&cap_hdr->code_type,
         elements[CAP_CODE_TYPE_IDX].buffer.pointer,
         elements[CAP_CODE_TYPE_IDX].buffer.length);

The same pattern repeats for drv_type, platform_id, and oem_id.
If the firmware returns buffer.length > 16 for any of these fields,
memcpy writes past the destination array.

struct pfru_update_cap_info is stack-allocated in pfru_ioctl().

Confirmed with KASAN on 7.2-rc6: three stack-out-of-bounds reports
are generated when a DSM returns 64-byte buffers, with writes reaching
44 bytes past the end of cap_hdr's [64, 156) frame window into
adjacent stack redzones.

Introduce a helper pointer to out_obj->package.elements and use it
to validate each buffer length against its destination field size
before copying, returning -EINVAL if the firmware supplies an
oversized buffer.