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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98687"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:45:58.719Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:42.401Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98687"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98687.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98687"
title: "thunderbolt: Reject oversized XDomain properties responses"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: Reject oversized XDomain properties responses\n\ntb_xdp_properties_request() allocates room for 45 data dwords in its\n252-byte response buffer.  The XDomain length field is six bits wide,\nhowever, and a malicious peer can set it to 63.  After the fixed response\nfields are subtracted, the driver treats this as 48 data dwords.\n\nCommit 322e93448d90 (\"thunderbolt: Clamp XDomain response data copy to\nallocation size\") only bounds the copy against data_len.  If data_len is\nat least 48, memcpy() reads 192 bytes from the 180-byte res-\u003edata array,\ncausing a 12-byte heap out-of-bounds read.  Commit 4db2bd2ed478\n(\"thunderbolt: Limit XDomain response copy to actual frame size\") limits\nthe earlier copy but does not constrain this header-derived length.\n\nReject response data lengths that exceed the allocated source buffer\nbefore copying them into the assembled property block."
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