CVE-2026-46064

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ibmasm: fix heap over-read in ibmasm_send_i2o_message()

The ibmasm_send_i2o_message() function uses get_dot_command_size() to compute the byte count for memcpy_toio(), but this value is derived from user-controlled fields in the dot_command_header (command_size: u8, data_size: u16) and is never validated against the actual allocation size. A root user can write a small buffer with inflated header fields, causing memcpy_toio() to read up to ~65 KB past the end of the allocation into adjacent kernel heap, which is then forwarded to the service processor over MMIO.

Silently clamping the copy size is not sufficient: if the header fields claim a larger size than the buffer, the SP receives a dot command whose own header is inconsistent with the I2O message length, which can cause the SP to desynchronize. Reject such commands outright by returning failure.

Validate command_size before calling get_mfa_inbound() to avoid leaking an I2O message frame: reading INBOUND_QUEUE_PORT dequeues a hardware frame from the controller's free pool, and returning without a corresponding set_mfa_inbound() call would permanently exhaust it.

Additionally, clamp command_size to I2O_COMMAND_SIZE before the memcpy_toio() so the MMIO write stays within the I2O message frame, consistent with the clamping already performed by outgoing_message_size() for the header field.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca1c857e2bb74a9fc0606128334f85316d57067b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b870f652877bfbe321bd0f4096fc37a93296f7b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce57fa439bd1b5d664f334a0c3e3f0e42abb0153
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd19eb1c75047a4ed4e855f56cafd704dc3914e0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe31722b0194ff76bf8b461e8bf97a2081147787
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1c2417c60dbdca5ebb00462f21ee71c2d7f7083
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e8f6c9d4ecddda2f28baa1678340286cff3969c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aad71144fa3682cca3837a06c8623016790e7ec

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