High (7.1) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps
Previously, when the driver was printing hex dumps, the buffer was cast
to an 8 byte long and printed using string formatters. If the buffer
size was not a multiple of 8 then a read buffer overflow was possible.
Therefore, create a new ibmvnic function that loops over a buffer and
calls hex_dump_to_buffer instead.
This patch address KASAN reports like the one below:
ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Login Buffer:
ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 01000000af000000
<...>
ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 2e6d62692e736261
ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 65050003006d6f63
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ibmvnic_login+0xacc/0xffc [ibmvnic]
Read of size 8 at addr c0000001331a9aa8 by task ip/17681
<...>
Allocated by task 17681:
<...>
ibmvnic_login+0x2f0/0xffc [ibmvnic]
ibmvnic_open+0x148/0x308 [ibmvnic]
__dev_open+0x1ac/0x304
<...>
The buggy address is located 168 bytes inside of
allocated 175-byte region [c0000001331a9a00, c0000001331a9aaf)
<...>
=================================================================
ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 000000000033766e
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)