CVE-2026-98155 PUBLISHED

accel/qaic: Address potential out-of-bounds read in resp_worker()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

accel/qaic: Address potential out-of-bounds read in resp_worker()

Although 'commit 2feec5ae5df7 ("accel/qaic: Handle DBC deactivation if the owner went away")' fixes the scenario it was intended for by walking the message and only decoding QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV, if present, it skipped over the bounds checking code that is included in decode_message(). This could lead to issues such as reading past the slab allocation's end, infinite loops or kernel panics. For those issues to happen, a malformed wire message is needed to be sent from the device.

Instead of duplicating the bounds checking code already present in decode_message(), use the function inside resp_worker().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 08021f2d4a557d6491e3bcc288e96425f50aa3cf to f4b64488f3deca63f7fbc7d7c3835b2e668003f9 (excl.)
  • affected from f403094d9075d7c565a3d81002b781c325cb3c07 to 12deeade460d47031267256ba07add51cc7eabd0 (excl.)
  • affected from 2feec5ae5df785658924ab6bd91280dc3926507c to c72e81ee46bdd4c221114d6e9515e9b4647616d7 (excl.)
  • affected from 2feec5ae5df785658924ab6bd91280dc3926507c to ab243f74ab4084ca5c8dec608cb5b0deb27db067 (excl.)
  • Version 2dd67966f39a2abf8ccb4865031c722e40e01b7f is affected
  • Version ee0180e77e6c8482644569632065411de844c515 is affected
  • affected from 6.12.81 to 6.12.111 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.22 to 6.18.53 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.134 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.19.12 to 6.20 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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