{"cve":"CVE-2026-53196","nvd":{"published":"2026-06-25T09:16:37.107","modified":"2026-09-18T13:18:33.220","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: serial: io_ti: fix heap overflow in get_manuf_info()\n\nget_manuf_info() reads le16_to_cpu(rom_desc->Size) bytes from the\ndevice I2C EEPROM into a buffer allocated with kmalloc_obj(), which\nis sizeof(struct edge_ti_manuf_descriptor) = 10 bytes.\n\nThe Size field comes from the device and is only validated (in\ncheck_i2c_image()) to make sure the descriptor fits within\nTI_MAX_I2C_SIZE (16384 bytes), not against the destination buffer size.\nA malicious USB device can therefore set Size to any value up to 16377,\ncausing a heap overflow of up to 16367 bytes when plugged into a host\nrunning this driver.\n\nvalid_csum() is called after read_rom() and also iterates\nbuffer[0..Size-1], compounding the out-of-bounds access.\n\nFix by rejecting descriptors with unexpected length before calling\nread_rom().\n\n[ johan: amend commit message; also check for short descriptors ]","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":6.8},"cwes":["CWE-787"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/183c1076eca43bbb3e7bdf597456f91d81c73e74","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/561edb021486e6723d841926aa4b48097da06190","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b849f30d1a9e66aae6b715aaef66e427390cb081","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfd634f6dfd40c49a84f9bddc2867a80e2e2623a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d214d2341d4f9f447e36a7d012cdf6a6631a55f1"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:41:17.107060303+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-53196","score":0.00271,"percentile":0.19411,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}