Medium [CVE-2026-80723] prevent OOB when too many dynamic regions are defined
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-80723 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: kernel.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: reserved_mem: prevent OOB when too many dynamic regions are defined On boot, fdt_scan_reserved_mem() saves each dynamically-placed /reserved-memory subnode into a local array of size MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS.
If the device tree defines more than MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS dynamically-placed regions, fdt_scan_reserved_mem() writes past the end of the local array. Add a bounds check that logs an error and skips the excess regions, restoring the original behavior.
When the device tree defines more dynamic regions than the `MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS` array can hold, the `fdt_scan_reserved_mem()` function performs an out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability can lead to memory corruption, potentially impacting system stability or allowing for further exploitation.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-787.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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