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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89436"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:06.732Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:44.750Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89436"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89436.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89436"
title: "platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sentinel write past pcc-\u003esinf[]"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sentinel write past pcc-\u003esinf[]\n\nacpi_pcc_retrieve_biosdata() rejects SINF packages only when\npcc-\u003enum_sifr is strictly less than hkey-\u003epackage.count, then\nunconditionally writes a trailing sentinel at\npcc-\u003esinf[hkey-\u003epackage.count]. But pcc-\u003esinf[] is allocated with\nexactly pcc-\u003enum_sifr elements (valid indices 0..num_sifr-1), so that\nwrite needs num_sifr strictly greater than package.count to stay in\nbounds -- num_sifr == package.count passes the existing check but\nstill overflows by one element.\n\nThis is exactly the case probe()'s existing num_sifr++ workaround\n(\"Some DSDT-s have an off-by-one bug where the SINF package count is\none higher than the SQTY reported value\") is written to accommodate:\nwhen a DSDT's SINF package count equals SQTY+1, the workaround makes\nnum_sifr equal to package.count, which is precisely the boundary that\noverflows here. Found via UBSan (array-index-out-of-bounds) on\nhardware where HKEY.SQTY returns 37 and HKEY.SINF()'s package has 38\nelements: num_sifr becomes 38 after the += 1 workaround, the loop\ncorrectly fills indices 0..37, and the sentinel write then targets\nindex 38, one past the end -- a silent 4-byte heap overflow on kernels\nwithout CONFIG_UBSAN.\n\nTightening the rejection check to num_sifr \u003c= package.count would\navoid the overflow but breaks probe() entirely on exactly this\nhardware, since num_sifr == package.count is the case the off-by-one\nworkaround exists to support. Nothing else in the driver reads this\nsentinel value back, so simply skip the write when there is no room\nfor it instead."
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