UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-89726
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen() Patch series "lib/ucs2_string.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()
Patch series "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in
ucs2_strnlen()", v2.
This series fixes an off-by-one out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen().
The first patch is the real fix, the second patch comes as a bonus and
fixes the code indentation.
This patch (of 2):
ucs2_strnlen() checks the current character before checking whether the
caller-provided maximum length has been reached. If the input is not
NUL-terminated within that bound, the loop can read one ucs2_char_t past
the limit.
Test the length before dereferencing to prevent an off-by-one
out-of-bounds read.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b0dc3cbb8630f0b5cb34d848628225920a904be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/709eb41adaf78d59d4579a13a898125919b69bcc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d658da725ea81c91f73087547b97e7ced82d62b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cec0d03fe785380540dc1b4d07c80f67ae2ffc78
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-11 via NVD.
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