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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63949" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:42.679Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:42.679Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-63949" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63949.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63949" title: "auxdisplay: line-display: fix OOB read on zero-length message_store()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nauxdisplay: line-display: fix OOB read on zero-length message_store()\n\nlinedisp_display() unconditionally reads msg[count - 1] before\nchecking whether count is zero, so a write of zero bytes to the\nmessage sysfs attribute hits msg[-1]:\n\n\twrite(fd, \"\", 0);\n\n\t-\u003e message_store(..., buf, count=0)\n\t -\u003e linedisp_display(linedisp, buf, count=0)\n\t -\u003e msg[count - 1] == '\\n' ; OOB read\n\nThe kernfs write buffer for that store is a 1-byte allocation\n(kernfs_fop_write_iter() does kmalloc(len + 1) with len == 0),\nso msg[-1] is a 1-byte read before the slab object. On a\nKASAN-enabled kernel this trips an out-of-bounds report and\npanics; on stock kernels it silently reads adjacent slab data\nand, if that byte happens to be '\\n', the following count--\nwraps ssize_t 0 to -1 and is then passed to kmemdup_nul().\n\nlinedisp_display() is reached from the message_store() sysfs\ncallback (drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c message attribute,\nmode 0644) and from the in-tree initial-message setup with\ncount == -1, so the OOB path is only userspace-triggerable via\nzero-byte writes; vfs_write() does not short-circuit on\ncount == 0 and kernfs_fop_write_iter() dispatches the store\ncallback regardless.\n\nGuard the trailing-newline trim with a count check. The\nexisting if (!count) block then takes the clear-display path\nunchanged.\n\nAffects every auxdisplay driver that registers via\nlinedisp_register() / linedisp_attach(): ht16k33, max6959,\nimg-ascii-lcd, seg-led-gpio." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca5b0781946d5083ceafa752141f47f085853620"},{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8776032fe989a9b5fc77f2de5e03e4adb44c630e"},{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3859960daeb9b7b39b9847b5b0113bc6081eb735"},{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"197476b126010bac1b3199833c6966cd6f54c2a9"},{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ad4f75ef9f3372fce8cad494e789ac6a5507bef"},{"version":"7e76aece6f036cb7ada4858d6aa73825bfe22983","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7511dcd9dd4bc55d123f9b800c8a4ed2662e5c6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"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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