Bug 2524475 (CVE-2026-80584) - CVE-2026-80584 kernel: s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls
Summary: CVE-2026-80584 kernel: s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80584
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-26 14:58 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 15:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-26 14:58:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls

qeth_snmp_command() and qeth_l3_arp_query() allocate a buffer sized by
a user-supplied length (udata_len) without checking a lower bound, then
set udata_offset to a fixed non-zero value and pass both to a reply
callback. The callback bounds-checks the copy with

        if ((udata_len - udata_offset) < len)

Both fields are u32, so a udata_len smaller than udata_offset makes the
subtraction wrap and the check pass, and the following memcpy() writes
past the allocation. A udata_len of 0 also yields ZERO_SIZE_PTR from
kzalloc(), which the existing NULL check does not catch.

Reject buffers smaller than udata_offset before allocating, so the
callback subtraction can no longer underflow.


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