CVE-2026-90137

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check The password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values] while copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package. The outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count. The encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not guarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all elem + pos_values accesses. A malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count without providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past the ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and length to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str(). Add the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based package parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.7
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedSep 17, 2026
First seenSep 17, 2026

How to fix

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  • Linux Linuxc224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309a, 59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3, ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71a, 8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92, e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linux8646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045 ≤ v < c224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309a, 8646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045 ≤ v < 59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3, 8646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045 ≤ v < ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71a, 8646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045 ≤ v < 8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92, 8646a3b5ee3a5b384a22a721f37c24274d974045 ≤ v < e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615, 6.6c224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309a, 59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3, ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71a, 8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92, e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615

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