# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72047"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:05.510Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:12.985Z"
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-2026-72047"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72047.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72047"
title: "ieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: ca8210: fix pointer truncation in kfifo on 64-bit\n\nca8210_test_int_driver_write() and ca8210_test_int_user_read() exchange\na kmalloc'd buffer pointer through a struct kfifo, but pass a literal\n'4' as the byte count to kfifo_in()/kfifo_out().\n\nThis is correct on 32-bit (pointer = 4 bytes), but on 64-bit only the\nlow 4 bytes of the 8-byte pointer are written into the FIFO. The reader\nthen reads back 4 bytes into an 8-byte local pointer variable, leaving\nthe upper 4 bytes uninitialized stack data. The first dereference of\nthe reconstructed pointer (fifo_buffer[1]) accesses an arbitrary kernel\naddress and generally results in an oops.\n\nUse sizeof(fifo_buffer) so the byte count matches pointer width on every\narchitecture.\n\nThe driver has no architecture restriction in Kconfig, so any 64-bit\nbuild with CONFIG_IEEE802154_CA8210_DEBUGFS=y is exposed. Issue has\nbeen latent since the driver was added in 2017 because it is most\ncommonly deployed on 32-bit MCUs.\n\nFound via a custom Coccinelle semantic patch hunting for short-byte\nkfifo I/O on byte-mode kfifos used to shuttle pointers."
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