Bug 2532522 (CVE-2026-80951) - CVE-2026-80951 kernel: Linux kernel: Out-of-bounds write in I3C master driver via oversized IBI payload
Summary: CVE-2026-80951 kernel: Linux kernel: Out-of-bounds write in I3C master driver...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80951
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 23:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-11 23:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 23:39:16 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i3c: master: svc: bound IBI payload to the requested max_payload_len

svc_i3c_master_handle_ibi() reads the IBI payload from the RX FIFO into
the IBI slot. The loop is bounded by the hardware FIFO size
(SVC_I3C_FIFO_SIZE), not by the slot size.

slot->data points into the IBI pool, which i3c_generic_ibi_alloc_pool()
sizes at max_payload_len per slot. svc_i3c_master_request_ibi() only
rejects a max_payload_len larger than SVC_I3C_FIFO_SIZE, so a driver can
request a smaller one. mctp-i3c requests 1. Each readsb() then copies the
controller RXCOUNT bytes (up to 31) with no check against the slot size.
A device that sends more bytes than the slot holds writes past
slot->data, an out-of-bounds write into the IBI pool.

Bound the loop by dev->ibi->max_payload_len and clamp each read to the
space left in the slot, the same way dw-i3c does. A device can still send
more than the requested payload. Flush the leftover bytes from the RX FIFO
so they do not leak into the next transfer.


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