{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-68348", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-07-30T09:28:09.384Z", "datePublished": "2026-08-10T12:03:25.193Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-17T05:03:50.265Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-17T05:03:50.265Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: tas2781: bound firmware description string parsing\n\nThe TAS2781 firmware parser reads several variable-length description\nstrings with strlen() before checking that the string terminator is\npresent inside the firmware blob. A malformed firmware image without a\nNUL terminator can therefore make the parser walk past the end of the\nfirmware buffer before the later size checks run.\n\nAdd a small bounded string-length helper and use it for all description\nfields that are parsed from the firmware buffer. Keep the existing size\nchecks for the fixed bytes that follow each string." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The malformed blob is consumed by request_firmware() from the local firmware search path during tas2781 codec probe (tasdevice_dsp_parser/tas2781_load_calibration); there is no network, adjacent-network, or peer-supplied data path into the parser, so local presence on the affected system is required.\nAC:L - Simply omitting the NUL terminator at the end of a coef/cal .bin file makes strlen() run past fmw->size deterministically on every load — no race, no timing window, and no memory-layout precondition the attacker cannot influence.\nPR:L - The parsing path contains no capability, credential, or privilege check whatsoever, and the firmware search path on many embedded/Android/appliance deployments lives on a vendor or data partition writable by non-root system accounts; a low-privileged local account is therefore sufficient to be positioned to place the blob.\nUI:N - Parsing runs from the asynchronous request_firmware_nowait() completion callback during device probe/bind; once the file is in place it is consumed automatically at the next boot or driver bind with no victim action required.\nS:U - The out-of-bounds read occurs in kernel memory belonging to the same kernel that hosts the vulnerable codec driver, with no crossing of a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary.\nC:H - strlen() is unbounded — it walks from the description offset through arbitrary kernel memory adjacent to the firmware buffer until a zero byte is found, so the read is not confined to a few bytes and touches heap/vmalloc contents outside the intended allocation.\nI:N - The defect is purely a read: the computed length is re-validated against fmw->size afterwards (and int/size_t promotion makes overflowed sums fail the check), so no out-of-bounds write or corrupted parse offset results from the OOB strlen.\nA:H - Firmware buffers are vmalloc/kmalloc allocations, so a strlen() walk past the end readily crosses into an unmapped page or guard page and produces a kernel oops/panic, which is High availability impact." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "915f5eadebd29ba185ac506766a90120153b7e14", "lessThan": "3ddb0d3e36507615e5ef010a879357a54870adf5", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "915f5eadebd29ba185ac506766a90120153b7e14", "lessThan": "0ec45e80a82785ee147516fdecf5c93707dec119", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "915f5eadebd29ba185ac506766a90120153b7e14", "lessThan": "41ae2b7d37c3dd82302167496836cca9f0328374", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "915f5eadebd29ba185ac506766a90120153b7e14", "lessThan": "e75ef37d83c90b09bedb601624b47e168202b226", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "915f5eadebd29ba185ac506766a90120153b7e14", "lessThan": "bc889dfcea9294a1eae7f8e2f3573a90764ae4d0", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.5", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.148", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.101", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.42", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.1.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.148" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.101" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.42" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1.6" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ddb0d3e36507615e5ef010a879357a54870adf5" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ec45e80a82785ee147516fdecf5c93707dec119" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41ae2b7d37c3dd82302167496836cca9f0328374" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e75ef37d83c90b09bedb601624b47e168202b226" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc889dfcea9294a1eae7f8e2f3573a90764ae4d0" } ], "title": "ASoC: tas2781: bound firmware description string parsing", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }