CVE-2026-43380 PUBLISHED

hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read

The q54sj108a2_debugfs_read function suffers from a stack buffer overflow due to incorrect arguments passed to bin2hex(). The function currently passes 'data' as the destination and 'data_char' as the source.

Because bin2hex() converts each input byte into two hex characters, a 32-byte block read results in 64 bytes of output. Since 'data' is only 34 bytes (I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 2), this writes 30 bytes past the end of the buffer onto the stack.

Additionally, the arguments were swapped: it was reading from the zero-initialized 'data_char' and writing to 'data', resulting in all-zero output regardless of the actual I2C read.

Fix this by: 1. Expanding 'data_char' to 66 bytes to safely hold the hex output. 2. Correcting the bin2hex() argument order and using the actual read count. 3. Using a pointer to select the correct output buffer for the final simple_read_from_buffer call.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to a0fc1b9c738fba231f190ab960c83202722efee5 (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to c59090c50f62a17129fc4c5407bc4071305a9e82 (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to 52db5ef163c96f916d424e472fb17aadc35a9f7a (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to b48a0f8d4541a4f6651dc9a64430ce9fdf5c120b (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to 73a7a345816946d276ad2c46c8bb771de67cfc46 (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to 24a7b9daa103fa963b3fd37d8805b23e01621976 (excl.)
  • affected from d014538aa38561cd24c5eb228223585f26c5ec71 to 25dd70a03b1f5f3aa71e1a5091ecd9cd2a13ee43 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.203 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.78 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.19 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.9 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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