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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:50.709Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:33:42.554Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53173"
title: "accel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naccel/ethosu: fix OOB write in ethosu_gem_cmdstream_copy_and_validate()\n\nThe command stream parsing loop increments the index variable a second\ntime when a 64-bit command word is encountered (bit 14 set), but does\nnot re-check the loop bound before writing the second word:\n\n    for (i = 0; i \u003c size / 4; i++) {\n        bocmds[i] = cmds[0];\n        if (cmd & 0x4000) {\n            i++;\n            bocmds[i] = cmds[1];   /* unchecked */\n        }\n    }\n\nThe buffer bocmds is backed by a DMA allocation of exactly size bytes\nfrom drm_gem_dma_create(ddev, size), giving valid indices [0, size/4-1].\n\nWhen i == size/4 - 1 on entry to an iteration and bit 14 of cmds[0] is\nset, bocmds[size/4-1] is written in bounds, i is then incremented to\nsize/4, and bocmds[size/4] writes four bytes past the end of the\nallocation.\n\nUserspace controls both the buffer contents and the size argument via\nthe ioctl, making this a userspace-triggerable heap out-of-bounds write.\n\nFix by checking the incremented index against the buffer bound before\nthe second write and returning -EINVAL if the buffer is too small to\ncontain the extended command."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db6cb3e35cebf487f9a78ebd4cfa4b83708ff40d"},{"version":"5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0837b9cf6eabbad8b8cbddaff1a46a6d0a2e29d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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