Bug 2481955 (CVE-2026-46022) - CVE-2026-46022 kernel: misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO read in ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt()
Summary: CVE-2026-46022 kernel: misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO read in ibmasm_handle_mouse...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-46022
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-27 20:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:04:09 UTC
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.


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