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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89571"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:40.328Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:04.541Z"
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-2026-89571"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89571.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89571"
title: "cxl/features: bound fwctl command payload to the input buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/features: bound fwctl command payload to the input buffer\n\nfwctl_cmd_rpc() copies cmd-\u003ein_len bytes into inbuf = kvzalloc(cmd-\u003ein_len)\nand passes inbuf and in_len to -\u003efw_rpc(). The CXL callback cxlctl_fw_rpc()\nignores in_len and never checks the user-controlled op_size against it.\n\ncxlctl_set_feature() bounds op_size only from below\n(op_size \u003c= sizeof(feat_in-\u003ehdr)) and then reads op_size - sizeof(hdr)\nbytes from feat_in-\u003efeat_data via cxl_set_feature(). With a small in_len\nand a large op_size the first memcpy() already reads past the\nkvzalloc(in_len) buffer; the out-of-bounds bytes are placed in the mailbox\npayload and sent to the device, and a large enough op_size can walk into\nunmapped memory and oops the kernel. The Get paths pin op_size to a fixed\nsize but likewise read the input struct without checking in_len.\n\nReject, at the single dispatch point, any request whose fixed header plus\nop_size does not fit in the copied-in buffer. The lower-bound test guards\nthe subtraction and ensures op_size was copied in before it is read."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eb5dfcb9e36d0e46089fec777d911313c1876fa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14d52c15d5d99477b20a2d61fe36f347080da6cd"},{"version":"eb5dfcb9e36d0e46089fec777d911313c1876fa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8957545fe96f7905791c937758ebfc1ae1e5b17"},{"version":"eb5dfcb9e36d0e46089fec777d911313c1876fa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f687394af983df5660b6afae7e0d06969f3af206"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"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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