# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80550"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:19.956Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:26.153Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80550"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80550.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80550"
title: "s390/vfio_ccw: Fix out of bounds check on CCW array"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/vfio_ccw: Fix out of bounds check on CCW array\n\nThe routine ccwchain_calc_length() counts the number of channel\ncommand words (CCWs) that are chained together in a single channel\nprogram, and rejects anything larger than CCWCHAIN_LEN_MAX (256) CCWs.\n\nThe loop itself is \"do..while (count \u003c 257)\", and while the logic in\nis_cpa_within_range() correctly adjusts between the 0-index array of\nCCWs and the count of CCWs starting at 1, this means it would look\nat a possible 257th CCW before ending the loop and (correctly)\nreturning an error.\n\nFix this by restructuring the loop to break as soon as 256 CCWs\n(thus indexes 0-255) are examined, without looking at memory\noutside the range."
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