CVE-2026-98687 PUBLISHED

thunderbolt: Reject oversized XDomain properties responses

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

thunderbolt: Reject oversized XDomain properties responses

tb_xdp_properties_request() allocates room for 45 data dwords in its 252-byte response buffer. The XDomain length field is six bits wide, however, and a malicious peer can set it to 63. After the fixed response fields are subtracted, the driver treats this as 48 data dwords.

Commit 322e93448d90 ("thunderbolt: Clamp XDomain response data copy to allocation size") only bounds the copy against data_len. If data_len is at least 48, memcpy() reads 192 bytes from the 180-byte res->data array, causing a 12-byte heap out-of-bounds read. Commit 4db2bd2ed478 ("thunderbolt: Limit XDomain response copy to actual frame size") limits the earlier copy but does not constrain this header-derived length.

Reject response data lengths that exceed the allocated source buffer before copying them into the assembled property block.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d1ff70241a275133e1a0258b7c23588b122276c8 to a766a86ff48acee76aeb8e2575771040749e509d (excl.)
  • affected from d1ff70241a275133e1a0258b7c23588b122276c8 to 2f97f929dad9eb3e1f63b721d2dd49bf9bc68efa (excl.)
  • affected from d1ff70241a275133e1a0258b7c23588b122276c8 to 737a1d2e9642d5f718bd29aa4a98b9eef3832f0a (excl.)
  • affected from d1ff70241a275133e1a0258b7c23588b122276c8 to 80756e263846ab694984e749e8c626897331438f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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