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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63892" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:03.568Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:03.568Z" 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-2026-63892" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63892.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63892" title: "thunderbolt: property: Reject dir_len \u003c 4 to prevent size_t underflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: property: Reject dir_len \u003c 4 to prevent size_t underflow\n\nOn the non-root path, __tb_property_parse_dir() takes dir_len from\nentry-\u003elength (u16 widened to size_t). Two distinct OOB conditions\nfollow when entry-\u003elength \u003c 4:\n\n1. The non-root path begins with kmemdup(&block[dir_offset],\n sizeof(*dir-\u003euuid), ...) which always reads 4 dwords from\n dir_offset. tb_property_entry_valid() only enforces\n dir_offset + entry-\u003elength \u003c= block_len, so a crafted entry\n with dir_offset close to the end of the property block and\n entry-\u003elength in 0..3 passes that gate but lets the UUID copy\n run off the block (e.g. dir_offset = 497, dir_len = 3 in a\n 500-dword block reads block[497..501]).\n\n2. After the kmemdup, content_len = dir_len - 4 underflows size_t\n to ~SIZE_MAX, nentries becomes SIZE_MAX / 4, and the entry\n walk runs OOB on each iteration until an entry fails\n validation or the kernel oopses on an unmapped page.\n\nReject dir_len \u003c 4 on the non-root path *before* the UUID kmemdup,\nwhich closes both holes.\n\nAlso move INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dir-\u003eproperties) up to immediately after\nthe dir allocation so the new error-return path (and the existing\nuuid-alloc failure path) calling tb_property_free_dir() sees a\nwalkable list rather than the zero-initialized NULL next/prev that\nlist_for_each_entry_safe() would oops on." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37abc4504fa19d8f9f1e87792e8a2b8fdb308e40"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2d4d51cf5785815fa4e91e0c019e3eb2506a84c"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de618299190b418291609e6921557253bd417e25"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5506c825f14d810f0690b1f4367cb7249ebb387a"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"542a13890b742099c461d70920e97b14e568f6ec"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d548179adcc87e1bc66b17e00352a1f536e76065"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bec49ca55e08fb085cc4318f24b1b37eaab28cb"},{"version":"cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de21b59c29e31c5108ddc04210631bbfab81b997"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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