CVE-2026-90137: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check
The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values]
while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package.
The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count.
The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not
guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all
elem + pos_values accesses.
A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count
without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past
the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and
length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().
Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based
package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615