{"cve":"CVE-2026-81013","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-11T20:19:10.173","modified":"2026-10-19T09:17:34.727","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read on empty password write\n\nvalidate_password_input() computes length = strlen(buf) and then\nchecks buf[length - 1] to strip a trailing newline, without checking\nthat length is nonzero first. Writing an empty string (a bare '\\n')\nto current_password or new_password gives length == 0, and\nbuf[length - 1] reads buf[-1], one byte before the heap allocation\nholding the copied input.\n\nKASAN confirms this directly:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in store_password_instance.constprop.0+0x223/0x2a0 [hp_bioscfg]\n  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88811bd8da9f by task sh/13740\n  ...\n  store_password_instance.constprop.0+0x223/0x2a0 [hp_bioscfg]\n  current_password_store+0x14/0x20 [hp_bioscfg]\n  ...\n  The buggy address is located 23 bytes to the right of\n  allocated 8-byte region [ffff88811bd8da80, ffff88811bd8da88)\n\nReproduced identically via new_password_store. Execution continues\npast the bad read (the garbage byte only affects whether \"length\" is\ndecremented by one), so the write completes and returns success; this\nis a pure information read past the buffer, not a crash, but it is\nstill an out-of-bounds access KASAN correctly flags.\n\nFix by only checking buf[length - 1] when length is nonzero.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f9aad08424882dd5714b53d29ae044060890752","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21243c15e1d31f0df1517435e3a7784747f19043","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b2ec354f905c14e3270e8ec3ab50f7d8ad73bab","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b699e5c1f63a9e79946c35598c8a6f7af2c356b8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cecb8154bd5fa6c8ddbd1a4e8216bbc0f0eb9828"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:53:43.293028046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-81013","score":0.00181,"percentile":0.07573,"date":"2026-10-25"},"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."]}