CVE-2026-90416

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix stack out-of-bounds read in cc_params debugfs get_param() reads a congestion parameter as a u32 but formats it with the signed "%d" into an 11-byte stack buffer. A value with bit 31 set, such as 0x80000000, renders as "-2147483648\n" whose full length is 12. snprintf() stores only 11 bytes yet returns 12, so simple_read_from_buffer() treats 12 bytes as valid and reads one byte past lbuf[]. Size the buffer for the widest unsigned decimal, format with "%u" to match the u32, and use scnprintf() so the length passed to simple_read_from_buffer() reflects the bytes actually stored.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d809cf3f0ed9255abfc73c4730bcf187151422af

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce8dfd32a33b578c3abf178f67b4c8d36854f041

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c75ee076fa09778a2f9602a972dade4a0b0785f7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4599311e78e88c893ad551aca622de2bfdf1c31f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c5b4f76cd73372c5a8a4c91c95d5a31f141e091

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0122fcc923a0271130f5fb71af2cd7e20434d9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06b62758f81e27ca4c81201c22e3436c6d9ac894

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03826bc1fa6c90405bf05831f2b501a8368dcd27

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0021