usb: typec: tcpm: bound altmode_desc[] per iteration in svdm_consume_modes() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-63962
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: bound altmode_desc[] per iteration in svdm_consume_modes() svdm_consume_modes() checks pmdata->altmodes against the array size once before the loop over the count, but forgot to check the bound at every point in the loop. In the well-behaved SVDM discovery flow this is harmless because each of at most SVID_DISCOVERY_MAX SVIDs contributes at most MODE_DISCOVERY_MAX modes, exactly filling altmode_desc[ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX]. But the CMDT_RSP_ACK handler in tcpm_pd_svdm() does not correlate an incoming ACK with any request the port actually sent. Once port->partner is set, an unsolicited Discover Modes ACK is consumed unconditionally. A broken or malicious port partner can therefore drive altmodes to ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX - 1 via the normal flow, and then send one extra Discover Modes ACK with seven VDOs. Because the pre-loop check passes, the loop could then writes up to five entries past altmode_desc[]. For mode_data_prime the next field in struct tcpm_port is the partner_altmode[] pointer array, which then receives partner-chosen SVID/VDO bytes. Move the bound check inside the loop so the array can never be indexed past ALTMODE_DISCOVERY_MAX regardless of how many VDOs the partner supplies or how the function was reached.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < f6694bac643c7ae25c0634b63e67d573ed31e5b7 ; affected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < 816c6251409db28f1b875988fcbd2ff1764a81f0 ; affected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < 845598b154b9a92e9d279fafafa9405c121ae805 ; affected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < 4505f33dab56c274e82f47f94bf60a8cbf8f4b42 ; affected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < cbad85b446c06adbc5e5bed565871bb918ce9d32 ; affected 4ab8c18d4d67321cc7b660559de17511d4fc0237 < 3389c149c68c3fea61910ad5d34f7bf3bff44e32
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.19 ; unaffected 0 < 4.19 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.93 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.35 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD