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CVE-2026-89726 (GCVE-0-2026-89726)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2026-09-14 12:02
VLAI
Title
lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen() Patch series "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()", v2. This series fixes an off-by-one out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen(). The first patch is the real fix, the second patch comes as a bonus and fixes the code indentation. This patch (of 2): ucs2_strnlen() checks the current character before checking whether the caller-provided maximum length has been reached. If the input is not NUL-terminated within that bound, the loop can read one ucs2_char_t past the limit. Test the length before dereferencing to prevent an off-by-one out-of-bounds read.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 04ae68af4107600120c3c41c94268f43bc350d48 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 2e5a70a175f0c74e7238b013a96c4eabc3002934 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3ada20e110bf3245edb0a3bcddadc33d0f142f8d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 60c74f42f5abddb85dd919b4448d5474e65dbe76 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 709eb41adaf78d59d4579a13a898125919b69bcc (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7d658da725ea81c91f73087547b97e7ced82d62b (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1b0dc3cbb8630f0b5cb34d848628225920a904be (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < cec0d03fe785380540dc1b4d07c80f67ae2ffc78 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.270 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.221 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.188 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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