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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89443"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:11.407Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:52.766Z"
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-2026-89443"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89443.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89443"
title: "platform/x86: ISST: Validate level in perf mask ioctls"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: ISST: Validate level in perf mask ioctls\n\nisst_if_get_perf_level_mask() and isst_if_get_base_freq_mask() use the\nuser-provided level as an index into perf_levels[] via\n_read_pp_level_info() and _read_bf_level_info(), but neither helper\nvalidates it first.\n\nThe adjacent level-info helpers reject levels above max_level before\nreading the same per-level register block. Add the same bounds checks to\nthe mask helpers, and reject disabled SST-PP levels in\nisst_if_get_perf_level_mask() to match isst_if_get_perf_level_info().\n\nThis prevents out-of-bounds reads from the per-level offset table on\ninvalid ioctl input."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ea009e4769fa3bd05d4c111c3b6865eb3a9be829","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"beb22ebf76c0415f22d2d0c3f1ff0627e7ae4a68"},{"version":"ea009e4769fa3bd05d4c111c3b6865eb3a9be829","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a8bab5ceee1a42a78de12d3d69f67516a20588e"},{"version":"ea009e4769fa3bd05d4c111c3b6865eb3a9be829","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1889a9156553f0692acd57caf15e877baace1a01"},{"version":"ea009e4769fa3bd05d4c111c3b6865eb3a9be829","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d19385624bdfb577db9c94bb8879992fd5e17bcd"},{"version":"ea009e4769fa3bd05d4c111c3b6865eb3a9be829","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80e0d353c86a9a168ad6d213f494796294381538"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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