platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read in sk_store() and kek_store()
Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Sep 11, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Summary
What happened
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read in sk_store() and kek_store()
sk_store() and kek_store() strip a trailing newline from the sysfs write before allocating the key buffer:
length = count;
if (buf[length - 1] == '\n')
length--;
bioscfg_drv.spm_data.signing_key = kmemdup(buf, length, GFP_KERNEL);
but then pass the original "count" (not "length") as the copy size to hp_wmi_perform_query(), which memcpy()s that many bytes out of the "length"-sized allocation, reading one byte past it whenever the write ends in a newline, the normal case for a shell "echo" into sysfs.
KASAN confirms this directly:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hp_wmi_perform_query+0x1e9/0x460 [hp_bioscfg] Read of size 28 at addr ffff88813c8e2b80 by task python3/16022 ... sk_store+0xa7/0x240 [hp_bioscfg] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e1/0x5d0 ... The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of allocated 27-byte region [ffff88813c8e2b80, ffff88813c8e2b9b)
Reproduced identically for kek_store, and at multiple write sizes (28, 57, 201 bytes), each time reading exactly one byte past a kmemdup() allocation one byte smaller than the write.
Fix by passing "length" instead of "count" to hp_wmi_perform_query() in both functions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-81014
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
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- Linux
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- Sep 11, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.6
- Affected versionversion=b2715aa2e1352c0060b9dcba57a2e465bbfbcd68 <4c6374dcb270d12907b880cf82a5a5ef21785fc3
- Affected versionversion=b2715aa2e1352c0060b9dcba57a2e465bbfbcd68 <67b60703d7d8af1ca0e49f72e1bdb1ccecd41b5b
- Affected versionversion=b2715aa2e1352c0060b9dcba57a2e465bbfbcd68 <7cd8fe01aba303a2382db0966eb6c8ab41d5f3c2
- Affected versionversion=b2715aa2e1352c0060b9dcba57a2e465bbfbcd68 <a7508c7959ff8d037327d377ed21a9c0eabe4674
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