Bug 2536526 (CVE-2026-90416) - CVE-2026-90416 kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params debugfs
Summary: CVE-2026-90416 kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90416
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:18 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-01 02:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:18:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params debugfs

get_param() reads a congestion parameter as a u32 but formats it with the
signed "%d" into an 11-byte stack buffer. A value with bit 31 set, such as
0x80000000, renders as "-2147483648\n" whose full length is 12. snprintf()
stores only 11 bytes yet returns 12, so simple_read_from_buffer() treats 12
bytes as valid and reads one byte past lbuf[].

Size the buffer for the widest unsigned decimal, format with "%u" to match
the u32, and use scnprintf() so the length passed to
simple_read_from_buffer() reflects the bytes actually stored.


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