CVE-2026-53150 PUBLISHED

thunderbolt: Reject zero-length property entries in validator

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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

thunderbolt: Reject zero-length property entries in validator

tb_property_entry_valid() accepts entries with length == 0 for DIRECTORY, DATA, and TEXT types. A zero-length TEXT entry passes validation but causes an underflow in the null-termination logic:

property->value.text[property->length * 4 - 1] = '\0';

When property->length is 0 this writes to offset -1 relative to the allocation.

Reject zero-length entries early in the validator since they have no valid representation in the XDomain property protocol.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 581c2053ab4dbe27e83c9e62deb4c73aa8dc0c3a (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 35d6c9252a152e756768a26dbf216b9dd9dd8e92 (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 99d9dbad1463afb510d42c9714f846361d1b726d (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 5f56bc6bddffe8710ba0ba8844023b5a44ca90e4 (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to ca11e7da4fba4b394f69e16448f4463c44c84de6 (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 2e0ddac549ebd713eb9f4a15b6496e3440a17d8b (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to 3b6e68cb97f725385010264a873e14a3921b6b8a (excl.)
  • affected from cdae7c07e3e3509eaabc18c1640a55dc5b99c179 to cff8eb65d1eafe7793e54b4d0cf6bf831644630b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.259 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.210 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.176 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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