# 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-2026-89471"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:29.867Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:47:20.319Z"
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-2026-89471"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89471.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89471"
title: "power: supply: cros_usbpd-charger: bound the EC-reported port count"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: cros_usbpd-charger: bound the EC-reported port count\n\ncros_usbpd_charger_probe() reads two port counts from the EC and uses\none of them, num_charger_ports, as the loop bound when populating a\nfixed-size array:\n\n\tstruct port_data *ports[EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS];\t/* 8 entries */\n\t...\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c charger-\u003enum_charger_ports; i++)\n\t\tcharger-\u003eports[charger-\u003enum_registered_psy++] = port;\n\nBoth num_usbpd_ports (from EC_CMD_USB_PD_PORTS) and num_charger_ports\n(from EC_CMD_CHARGE_PORT_COUNT) are u8 values reported by the EC. The\nonly validation is a sanity check that compares the two EC-reported\nvalues against each other:\n\n\tif (num_charger_ports \u003c num_usbpd_ports ||\n\t    num_charger_ports \u003e num_usbpd_ports + 1)\n\t\treturn -EPROTO;\n\nIt never checks either count against EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS, the size of\nthe ports[] array. A malfunctioning, malicious or compromised EC that\nreports num_usbpd_ports == num_charger_ports == N for any N \u003e 8 (for\nexample both 255) passes this check, and the loop then writes N pointers\ninto the 8-entry ports[] array embedded in the devm_kzalloc()'d\ncharger_data, overflowing it by up to 255 - 8 = 247 entries (~1976\nbytes): a slab out-of-bounds write.\n\nReject a port count larger than the ports[] array can hold."
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