Bug 2492729 (CVE-2026-53173) - CVE-2026-53173 kernel: accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate()
Summary: CVE-2026-53173 kernel: accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_co...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53173
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 22:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:02:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_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 drm_gem_dma_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.


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