CVE-2026-23194

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Write in Rust Binder FDA Object Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rust_binder: correctly handle FDA objects of length zero Fix a bug where an empty FDA (fd array) object with 0 fds would cause an out-of-bounds error. The previous implementation used `skip == 0` to mean "this is a pointer fixup", but 0 is also the correct skip length for an empty FDA. If the FDA is at the end of the buffer, then this results in an attempt to write 8-bytes out of bounds. This is caught and results in an EINVAL error being returned to userspace. The pattern of using `skip == 0` as a special value originates from the C-implementation of Binder. As part of fixing this bug, this pattern is replaced with a Rust enum. I considered the alternate option of not pushing a fixup when the length is zero, but I think it's cleaner to just get rid of the zero-is-special stuff. The root cause of this bug was diagnosed by Gemini CLI on first try. I used the following prompt: > There appears to be a bug in @drivers/android/binder/thread.rs where > the Fixups oob bug is triggered with 316 304 316 324. This implies > that we somehow ended up with a fixup where buffer A has a pointer to > buffer B, but the pointer is located at an index in buffer A that is > out of bounds. Please investigate the code to find the bug. You may > compare with @drivers/android/binder.c that implements this correctly.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.18.0 - 6.18.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.18.10 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19
Linux/Linux eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 - 598fe3ff32e43918ed8a062f55432b3d23e6340c
Linux/Linux eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 - 8f589c9c3be539d6c2b393c82940c3783831082f
linux/linux_kernel 6.19 rc1 (8 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.18 - 6.18.10
Published Feb 14, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026