Bug 2536406 (CVE-2026-90137) - CVE-2026-90137 kernel: platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check
Summary: CVE-2026-90137 kernel: platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90137
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 12:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:44:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check

The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values]
while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package.

The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count.
The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not
guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all
elem + pos_values accesses.

A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count
without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past
the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and
length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().

Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based
package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].


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