# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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-2026-90416"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:09:41.372Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:03:20.401Z"
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-2026-90416"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90416.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90416"
title: "RDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params debugfs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params debugfs\n\nget_param() reads a congestion parameter as a u32 but formats it with the\nsigned \"%d\" into an 11-byte stack buffer. A value with bit 31 set, such as\n0x80000000, renders as \"-2147483648\\n\" whose full length is 12. snprintf()\nstores only 11 bytes yet returns 12, so simple_read_from_buffer() treats 12\nbytes as valid and reads one byte past lbuf[].\n\nSize the buffer for the widest unsigned decimal, format with \"%u\" to match\nthe u32, and use scnprintf() so the length passed to\nsimple_read_from_buffer() reflects the bytes actually stored."
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