# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80975"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:37.086Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:59.772Z"
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-2026-80975"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80975.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80975"
title: "mfd: qnap-mcu: keep the reply buffer alive past a command timeout"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmfd: qnap-mcu: keep the reply buffer alive past a command timeout\n\nqnap_mcu_exec() publishes an on-stack buffer to the receive path:\n\n\tunsigned char rx[QNAP_MCU_RX_BUFFER_SIZE];\n\t...\n\treply-\u003edata = rx;\n\treply-\u003elength = length;\n\nand qnap_mcu_receive_buf() writes into it from the serdev receive path,\nwhich runs out of flush_to_ldisc() and is not serialized against\nqnap_mcu_exec() at all. bus_lock cannot cover it, because qnap_mcu_exec()\nholds that mutex across wait_for_completion_timeout().\n\nOn a timeout qnap_mcu_exec() returns with reply-\u003edata still pointing at\nits own frame. A reply that arrives late, or an unsolicited message from\nthe MCU, is then written into a stack frame that has been left, corrupting\nwhatever runs next on that stack. The same applies when qnap_mcu_write()\nfails, since that path returns without touching the reply state either.\n\nMove the receive buffer into struct qnap_mcu. It is 37 bytes and the\nstructure is devm_kzalloc()ed, so it lives as long as the driver, and a\nlate write lands in memory that is still valid and is reinitialized by the\nnext command. bus_lock keeps commands from sharing it.\n\nThis deliberately does not clear reply-\u003edata or reply-\u003elength on the\ntimeout path. Doing so races with qnap_mcu_receive_buf(), which reads both\nafter its\n\n\tif (!reply-\u003elength)\n\t\treturn size;\n\ncheck: clearing reply-\u003edata gives a NULL dereference, and clearing\nreply-\u003elength alone removes the reply-\u003ereceived == reply-\u003elength exit\ncondition, so the copy loop runs until the uart chunk is consumed and\noverruns the buffer. Leaving both set keeps the write bounded by\nreply-\u003elength, which qnap_mcu_exec() has already checked against\nsizeof(mcu-\u003erx)."
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