CVE-2026-89947
HighCVSS 8.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel was found, involving an out-of-bounds read in the clock driver for Amlogic GXBB platforms. The issue stems from a hard-coded number of parents for the gxbb_32k_clk_sel clock, which is inconsistent with the actual count, leading to a KASAN error during clock registration. The fix uses ARRAY_SIZE instead of a hard-coded value.
Risk Assessment
The vulnerability can cause a system panic during boot on devices with Amlogic GXBB SoCs (e.g., WeTek Hub), resulting in service unavailability. It is not remotely exploitable but can be triggered by normal system operations.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 7915d7d5407c and related changes). If updating is not possible, consider applying a manual patch or temporarily disabling support for GXBB platforms.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: meson: align gxbb_32k_clk_sel number of parents with actual count The following out-of-bounds read has been observed by Christian on a GXBB WeTek Hub: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418 Read of size 8 at addr ffffd66320cf88e0 by task swapper/0/1 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT Hardware name: WeTek Hub (DT) Call trace: show_stack+0x14/0x20 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x94 print_report+0x164/0x4b0 kasan_report+0x98/0xd8 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x24 __clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418 devm_clk_hw_register+0x74/0x15c meson_clkc_init+0xd4/0x20c meson_clkc_syscon_probe+0x5c/0x94 platform_probe+0xbc/0x17c really_probe+0x184/0x844 __driver_probe_device+0x154/0x35c driver_probe_device+0x60/0x188 __driver_attach+0x168/0x4a0 bus_for_each_dev+0xec/0x180 driver_attach+0x38/0x58 bus_add_driver+0x238/0x4c0 driver_register+0x150/0x388 __platform_driver_register+0x54/0x7c gxbb_clkc_driver_init+0x18/0x20 do_one_initcall+0xb8/0x340 kernel_init_freeable+0x49c/0x52c kernel_init+0x24/0x148 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 The buggy address belongs to the variable: gxbb_32k_clk_parents+0x60/0x400 The buggy address belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping The buggy address belongs to the physical page: Memory state around the buggy address: ffffd66320cf8780: 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ffffd66320cf8800: 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 >ffffd66320cf8880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 ^ ffffd66320cf8900: 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 06 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ffffd66320cf8980: 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ================================================================== Commit 7915d7d5407c ("clk: amlogic: gxbb: drop non existing 32k clock parent") dropped a non-existing clock parent from the gxbb_32k_clk_sel mux but didn't adjust the hard-coded num_parents field. Fix the actual number of parents of that mux by using ARRAY_SIZE instead (avoiding similar problems in future).
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