# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
- Verify the actual environment, vendor, product, platform and installed versions against the current authoritative advisory and release information before proposing a change. Preserve each product entry's platforms, default status and version/change boundaries; never infer a fix from a range endpoint or an unaffected entry.
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89878"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:44.876Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:11.089Z"
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-2026-89878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89878"
title: "media: s2255: check firmware size before reading trailing marker"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: s2255: check firmware size before reading trailing marker\n\ns2255_probe() reads a 4-byte marker and version from the last 8 bytes\nof the firmware blob (fw-\u003edata[fw_size - 8] and [fw_size - 4]). If the\nfirmware file is shorter than 8 bytes, fw_size - 8 underflows and the\naccess reads out of bounds. Validate the firmware size before indexing."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f6a5b0b0a84c2de0e152f2841e57bc226db924f"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8eca0f85eeb0789be40e637bcf9a21c4265b6c6f"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffc27411ea60b8a09f1fea3d664b65210fdeb454"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5626785b0e4665326e4d96736c106161da09b2f0"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e03f1209c1c8a45a7bc559f4ecd79d9b33f706d"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"342632a4d8ba3fafc1556deee0b7a48dd7860336"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d221859ba45d7228d0138c9a3e55bd3bb31e14e"},{"version":"14d962602c8bf86e63c9b9272be1f0360d0a448a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"330f2936ab768c7215322a476f033143e8891d28"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.28","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.28"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","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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