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CVE-2026-93280

8.8 HIGH

Published 2026-09-24 · Updated 2026-09-25

AI risk analysis

Summary
This vulnerability allows an attacker to cause out-of-bounds memory access by supplying a topology blob with section sizes larger than the actual fetched size, potentially leading to kernel crashes or arbitrary code execution.
Exploitability
Exploitation requires a module to be loaded with a malicious topology blob. The attacker must have the ability to load arbitrary modules into the kernel.
Blast radius
If exploited, the vulnerability could lead to a denial of service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution within the kernel context, impacting the entire system.
Detection
No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to the Linux kernel version 6.1.17 or later.
kernelmemory-overflowout-of-bounds

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: greybus: audio: bound the topology section sizes against the fetched size gb_audio_gb_get_topology() fetches a topology blob of a module-supplied size, and gbaudio_tplg_parse_data() then walks it by adding the module-supplied size_dais, size_controls and size_widgets fields to form the control, widget and route section offsets. Those le32 sizes are never checked against the fetched blob, so a module reporting a small topology size but large section sizes makes the offsets point past the allocation, and parsing reads out of bounds. Reject a topology whose section sizes do not fit within the fetched size before it is parsed.

CVSS vector

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

All references

Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.

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