CVE-2026-90137

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check

HIGH
7.7
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:06 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values] while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package. The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count. The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all elem + pos_values accesses. A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str(). Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].

Affected

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

6.68646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045
Vendor states this is fixed in 59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.7HIGHLinux
Vector?

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