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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68124" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:44.997Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:29:36.851Z" 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-2026-68124" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68124.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68124" title: "mctp: serial: handle zero-length frames to prevent rx buffer overflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmctp: serial: handle zero-length frames to prevent rx buffer overflow\n\nThe MCTP serial receive state machine reads a frame length byte in\nmctp_serial_push_header() case 2 and validates it upper-bound-only:\n\n\tif (c \u003e MCTP_SERIAL_FRAME_MTU) {\n\t\tdev-\u003erxstate = STATE_ERR;\n\t} else {\n\t\tdev-\u003erxlen = c;\n\t\tdev-\u003erxpos = 0;\n\t\tdev-\u003erxstate = STATE_DATA;\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nA length of zero passes this check, so rxlen is set to 0 and the state\nmachine advances to STATE_DATA. In mctp_serial_push() STATE_DATA, the\nincoming byte is stored and rxpos incremented before the terminator is\n\n\tdev-\u003erxbuf[dev-\u003erxpos] = c;\n\tdev-\u003erxpos++;\n\tdev-\u003erxstate = STATE_DATA;\n\tif (dev-\u003erxpos == dev-\u003erxlen) {\n\t\tdev-\u003erxpos = 0;\n\t\tdev-\u003erxstate = STATE_TRAILER;\n\t}\n\nWith rxlen == 0 the \"rxpos == rxlen\" terminator can never fire (rxpos is\nalready 1 on the first data byte), so subsequent bytes are written past\nthe end of the fixed 74-byte rxbuf, which is the last member of the\nnetdev private area. Every following data byte is an attacker-controlled\n1-byte out-of-bounds heap write, and the overflow continues until a\nframe (0x7e) or escape byte resets the parser -- effectively unbounded.\n\nReaching this requires CAP_NET_ADMIN to attach the N_MCTP line\ndiscipline and bring the resulting mctpserialN netdev up, after which\nthe bytes arrive via the tty receive path.\n\nRoute a zero-length frame straight to STATE_TRAILER instead of\nSTATE_DATA. The trailer/framing bytes are still consumed, and the frame\nresolves to a zero-length skb that the MCTP core rejects; the parser\nnever enters STATE_DATA with rxlen == 0, so the out-of-bounds write can\nno longer occur.\n\nKASAN, on a frame of 0x7e 0x01 0x00 followed by data bytes (before this\nchange):\n\n UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/mctp/mctp-serial.c:370\n index 74 is out of range for type 'u8 [74]'\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in mctp_serial_tty_receive_buf\n Write of size 1 at addr ... by task kworker/u16:0\n mctp_serial_tty_receive_buf\n tty_ldisc_receive_buf\n flush_to_ldisc\n Allocated by task 152:\n alloc_netdev_mqs\n mctp_serial_open\n\nv2: route zero-length frames to STATE_TRAILER instead of STATE_ERR so\n the trailer/framing bytes are still consumed (Jeremy Kerr).\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64b96ae7912244d55257aa330d9569ee0a8f8d99"},{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36dc6d6964a3b90411cc7944cd9b8b6f67b9807b"},{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68819427bc07eca7963a9e8be19e5272cc29186c"},{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f80ba170d7b3a44e3d244a2c8e06031d61bf3b23"},{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06a6b606129c8a25cd457760f5370f3ff01fe05d"},{"version":"a0c2ccd9b5ad0a9e838158404e041b5a8ff762dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"793b9b729f1e8de57be8c8daf1a9838be96cabed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","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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