{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-81011", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.813Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:43:01.422Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:46:36.444Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:46:36.444Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: hp-bioscfg: pass validated element count to package parsers\n\nThe per-type package parsers are handed the wrong element count.\n\nhp_init_bios_package_attribute() validates obj->package.count and then\ncalls one of the five hp_populate_*_package_data() wrappers (string,\ninteger, enumeration, ordered list, password). Each wrapper forwards a\ncount to its hp_populate_*_elements_from_package() parser, but instead\nof forwarding the validated obj->package.count it derives the count\nfrom elements[0]. elements[0] is the NAME field and is always an\nACPI_TYPE_STRING, so reading ->package.count from it in fact reads\n->string.length through the union acpi_object. The parsers thus bound\nthemselves against the length of the name string rather than against\nthe real number of elements in the package.\n\nThis is safe today because hp_init_bios_package_attribute() refuses any\npackage that has fewer than the type's element count, so a parser only\never runs on a full package and never reads past it regardless of the\nbogus bound.\n\nAn upcoming change relaxes that check to accept shorter packages. Once\na parser can receive fewer elements than its per-type count, a bound\ntaken from the name length no longer reflects the array size, and the\n\"elem < count\" loop conditions and \"elem + n >= count\" sub-loop guards\nread past the end of elements[] - an out-of-bounds heap read.\n\nForward the validated obj->package.count to every *_package_data()\nwrapper so the parsers bound themselves against the real package size.\nThis does not change behaviour for the packages that enumerate\ncorrectly today and is a prerequisite for accepting shorter packages\nsafely." } ], "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 hp-bioscfg package parsers run during local driver initialization on ACPI/WMI objects fetched by wmi_query_block(); there is no network, adjacent-radio, or USB/peripheral path into this code.\nAC:L - A NAME whose string.length exceeds the real package.count makes the nested elem+n bounds and outer elem