CVE-2026-80584

s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls

HIGH
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 26, 2026 at 02:37 PM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls qeth_snmp_command() and qeth_l3_arp_query() allocate a buffer sized by a user-supplied length (udata_len) without checking a lower bound, then set udata_offset to a fixed non-zero value and pass both to a reply callback. The callback bounds-checks the copy with if ((udata_len - udata_offset) < len) Both fields are u32, so a udata_len smaller than udata_offset makes the subtraction wrap and the check pass, and the following memcpy() writes past the allocation. A udata_len of 0 also yields ZERO_SIZE_PTR from kzalloc(), which the existing NULL check does not catch. Reject buffers smaller than udata_offset before allocating, so the callback subtraction can no longer underflow.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.264a71df50047f0db65ea09b1be155852e81a45eba
Vendor states this is fixed in 3083818e67bcd656965797fbac9a3d6c1d44f78a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 46443eaddebd84c51940857b11787229be169dec (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 75fb3151513d7d9f77a8f9545418279b119c06b8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 91935843f9396a9e45253e2c0d4337ca1371754b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9d00eeb2d27f4cc817c5e408760226d43f811ec6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a3083647747942ea32faf14560d6397ff3068046 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cc423f4105fe145b33e1d7cad34245a798358f73 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d141f087b1af656f055d7c5793a3e87817ba0bbe (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.26 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.266 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.217 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.184 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.105 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.46 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.153 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

8.4HIGHLinux
Vector?

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