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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63895" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:05.479Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:05.479Z" 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-2026-63895" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63895.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63895" title: "usb: gadget: f_fs: copy only received bytes on short ep0 read" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_fs: copy only received bytes on short ep0 read\n\nffs_ep0_read() allocates its control-OUT data buffer with\nkmalloc() (not kzalloc) at the Length value from the Setup\npacket, then copies that full len to userspace regardless of\nhow many bytes were actually received:\n\n data = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);\n ...\n ret = __ffs_ep0_queue_wait(ffs, data, len);\n if ((ret \u003e 0) && (copy_to_user(buf, data, len)))\n ret = -EFAULT;\n\n__ffs_ep0_queue_wait() returns req-\u003eactual, which on a short\ncontrol OUT transfer is strictly less than len. The\ncopy_to_user() call still copies len bytes, so on a short OUT\nthe last (len - ret) bytes of the kmalloc() buffer --\nuninitialised slab residue -- are delivered to the FunctionFS\ndaemon.\n\nShort ep0 OUT completions are specified USB control-transfer\nbehavior and are produced by in-tree UDCs:\n\n * dwc2 continues on req-\u003eactual \u003c req-\u003elength for ep0 DATA OUT\n (short-not-ok is the only ep0-OUT stall path).\n * aspeed_udc ends ep0 OUT on rx_len \u003c ep-\u003eep.maxpacket.\n * renesas_usbf logs \"ep0 short packet\" and completes the\n request.\n * dwc3 stalls on short IN but not on short OUT.\n\nA short ep0 OUT is therefore not evidence of a broken UDC; it is\na normal condition f_fs has to cope with. The sibling gadgetfs\nimplementation in drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c already does\nthis correctly via min(len, dev-\u003ereq-\u003eactual) before\ncopy_to_user(). This patch brings f_fs.c to the same safe\npattern rather than trimming at a defensive layer.\n\nThe bug is reached from the FunctionFS device node, which in\nreal deployments is owned by the privileged gadget daemon\n(adbd, UMS, composite gadget services, etc.); it is not\nreachable from unprivileged userspace. Linux host stacks\nnormally reject short-wLength control OUTs before they reach\nthe gadget, so reproducing this required a build that\nbypasses that host-side check. With the bypass in place, a\n1-byte payload on a 64-byte Setup produces 63 bytes of\nnon-canary slab residue in the daemon's read buffer.\n\nFix by copying only ret (actually received) bytes to\nuserspace." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90ccf5fb63243fae1b4b3200f3310500500ecf2e"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af32dbb2ca0b3d09271ab718d13857a457fa16f2"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e835bf9a055f71874065a40780ca5560b7df8b33"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88874a19b2b093bfaaa1c0090fa536c44da8c08b"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"607730a414773a7cbe3037a64a6c64e72689ff5e"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23c1f7deb9dd8447ecde749850676302aa1e2bd3"},{"version":"ddf8abd2599491cbad959c700b90ba72a5dce8d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e036c10e7f4df5d951c69cc3697bc8e209c6d02"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"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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