{"id":"CVE-2026-64087","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-64087","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:44:56.907Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) reject implausible blackbox record_count adm1266_nvmem_read_blackbox() loops over a record_count that comes straight from byte 3 of the BLACKBOX_INFO response.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) reject implausible blackbox record_count\n\nadm1266_nvmem_read_blackbox() loops over a record_count that comes\nstraight from byte 3 of the BLACKBOX_INFO response.  The destination\nbuffer is data->dev_mem, sized for the nvmem cell's declared 2048\nbytes (ADM1266_BLACKBOX_MAX_RECORDS * ADM1266_BLACKBOX_SIZE = 32 * 64).\nA device that reports a record_count greater than 32 -- whether due\nto firmware bugs, bus corruption, or a non-responsive slave returning\n0xff -- would walk read_buff past the end of the dev_mem allocation\non the trailing iterations.\n\nCap record_count at ADM1266_BLACKBOX_MAX_RECORDS (introduced here)\nbefore entering the loop and return -EIO on any larger value, so a\nmalformed BLACKBOX_INFO response cannot drive the loop out of bounds.","published":"2026-07-19T16:17:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-03T16:12:44.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00128,"percentile":0.0244,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e791cd0140fb136083565aadfbe0f705aa260d0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/231db52a5b64d0a9769e298dadc148e1f79b26a6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4afca954622d672ea65ed961bed01cf91caa034e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5469e1e7c411acc15fdd8262c99c3ebd9defd594","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75c862adf3d3caab4f49bb3530723c215376e37c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adcb163ad7cacca317872fc62bd8885e842e45e3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2c56092710fe8a893b67b5a3d7e62808d02d84d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f85c81e93dbd6915970bd5f3bffcf62633c4c54c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64087","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}