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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64449" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:19.537Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:55:52.942Z" 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-2026-64449" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64449.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64449" title: "staging: vme_user: bound slave read/write to the kern_buf size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: vme_user: bound slave read/write to the kern_buf size\n\nThe SLAVE-path helpers buffer_to_user() and buffer_from_user() copy\n'count' bytes into/out of the fixed-size kern_buf (size_buf ==\nPCI_BUF_SIZE == 0x20000, 128 KiB) using *ppos as the offset, without\nbounding *ppos + count against size_buf.\n\nvme_user_write()/vme_user_read() only clamp count to the VME window size\n(image_size = vme_get_size(resource)), which VME_SET_SLAVE sets from the\nuser-supplied slave.size -- validated against the VME address space (up\nto VME_A32_MAX = 4 GiB), not against PCI_BUF_SIZE. When the window\nexceeds 128 KiB, a write()/read() copies past the kern_buf allocation.\n\nClamp count against size_buf in both helpers, with an early return when\n*ppos is already at/after the buffer end. *ppos is \u003e= 0 here (the caller\nrejects negative offsets), so size_buf - *ppos cannot wrap. This mirrors\nthe existing clamp in the MASTER-path helpers resource_to_user() /\nresource_from_user(), and matches the read()/write() convention of a\nshort transfer at end-of-buffer.\n\nFound by static analysis (CodeQL taint tracking + CBMC bounded model\nchecking) and confirmed dynamically under KASAN with the vme_fake bridge:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80\n Write of size 262144 at addr ffff888004100000 by task trigger/68\n _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80\n vme_user_write+0x13e/0x240 [vme_user]\n vfs_write+0x1b8/0x7a0\n ksys_write+0xb8/0x150" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65358d89dc9f1c25d9364b2b3ef0f3b47717f9ed"},{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adc8b9c30d716c362646edb45662aa1c641a154a"},{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8eff7cd4817e14dbe3b9952cce55ef52d1d38940"},{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e99f2df433c63c86c93de1e5f08f16e404388756"},{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b495fa0d4927c88d88bf346bf311f2e26e860ed"},{"version":"f00a86d98a1ec3e99d352cda926fab767ba43b1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f32f38265014fac7f5dc9490fb01a638ce6e121"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.32"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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