CVE-2026-74585 PUBLISHED

thunderbolt: Bound the DROM dual link port number before indexing sw->ports

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

thunderbolt: Bound the DROM dual link port number before indexing sw->ports

tb_drom_parse_entry_port() validates the device-supplied header->index against sw->config.max_port_number before indexing sw->ports[], but the sibling field entry->dual_link_port_nr -- a 6-bit value also read from the DROM -- indexes the same array with no such check. A malicious or malformed Thunderbolt device can set dual_link_port_nr beyond the allocated sw->ports[] (max_port_number + 1 entries), producing an out-of-bounds tb_port pointer that is stored and later dereferenced.

Reject a port entry whose dual_link_port_nr exceeds max_port_number, the same bound already applied to header->index.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to 6c892ed9f4129ae40ef0f92e1bb31aa0b0ddc72c (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to 3d3c212b70633332ab71672aa2bc6af257d2ec83 (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to b98e1e28bd95b0fa33164eec1e763d26c7058b39 (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to 50f0c8dd8c3390f851cfb97ca13116f9ee6469d1 (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to f28066057134aa9294caa597b670daf505ad9dce (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to 40d2ffb74094cf36edbe05855566a4c58b6ce808 (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to f32c3a9a77cfb50934a60b05d5407649af062535 (excl.)
  • affected from cd22e73bdf5eff7e68a0f8bdfbce123ad43651f6 to d6764992f17b23d91ff93ce905ab53c2aa7191f0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.265 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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