🛡️ CVE-2026-23327 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed()

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

cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed()

cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() casts and dereferences the input

payload without first verifying its size. When a raw mailbox command

is sent with an undersized payload (ie: 1 byte for CXL_MBOX_OP_CLEAR_LOG,

which expects a 16-byte UUID), uuid_equal() reads past the allocated buffer,

triggering a KASAN splat:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683

Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810130f5c0 by task syz.1.62/2258

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2258 Comm: syz.1.62 Not tainted 6.19.0-dirty #3 PREEMPT(voluntary)

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0xab/0xe0 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]

print_report+0xce/0x650 mm/kasan/report.c:482

kasan_report+0xce/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:595

memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683

uuid_equal include/linux/uuid.h:73 [inline]

cxl_payload_from_user_allowed drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:345 [inline]

cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:368 [inline]

cxl_validate_cmd_from_user drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:522 [inline]

cxl_send_cmd+0x9c0/0xb50 drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:643

__cxl_memdev_ioctl drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:698 [inline]

cxl_memdev_ioctl+0x14f/0x190 drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:713

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]

__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xa8/0x330 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

RIP: 0033:0x7fdaf331ba79

Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48

RSP: 002b:00007fdaf1d77038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdaf3585fa0 RCX: 00007fdaf331ba79

RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 00000000c030ce02 RDI: 0000000000000003

RBP: 00007fdaf33749df R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000

R13: 00007fdaf3586038 R14: 00007fdaf3585fa0 R15: 00007ffced2af768

</TASK>

Add 'in_size' parameter to cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() and validate

the payload is large enough.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2026-23327 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.19.0 up to 6.19.7)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2026-23327 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.19.0 6.19.7
linux-kernel

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