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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80662"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:06.277Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:49.254Z"
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-2026-80662"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80662.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80662"
title: "cxl: Fix CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to match RAS Capability size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl: Fix CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to match RAS Capability size\n\nThe CXL r4.0 8.2.4.17.7 RAS Capability Structure has total length 0x58\nbytes (CXL_RAS_CAPABILITY_LENGTH); the Header Log occupies the trailing\n64 bytes at offset 0x18.  CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE was defined as SZ_512,\neight times the actual on-device size.\n\nheader_log_copy() reads CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 (128) dwords from the\nRAS capability iomap, overrunning the 88-byte mapping by 448 bytes.\nThe cxl_aer_uncorrectable_error trace event memcpy()s CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE\n(512) bytes from its source.  For the CPER caller the source is\nstruct cxl_ras_capability_regs::header_log[16] (64 bytes) embedded in a\nstack-local cxl_cper_prot_err_work_data, so the memcpy reads 448 bytes\nof kernel stack into the trace event ring buffer where userspace can\nread it via tracefs.\n\nSet CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to 64 and derive CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 from it,\nbringing all iomap readers into agreement on 16 dwords.  Userspace tools\nsuch as rasdaemon have grown a dependency on the buggy 512-byte (128 u32)\nheader_log layout in the cxl_aer_uncorrectable_error trace event.  Add\nCXL_HEADERLOG_TRACE_SIZE_U32 = 128 and use it for the trace event\n__array and its memcpy to preserve that ABI.  Both callers now pass a\nzero-filled u32[CXL_HEADERLOG_TRACE_SIZE_U32] staging buffer with only\nthe first CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 (16) entries populated from hardware;\nthe remaining 112 u32s are zero-padded, keeping the 512-byte trace ring\nbuffer layout intact.\n\n[ dj: Replaced 64 with SZ_64 per RichardC ]"
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