tpm: Make the TPM character devices non-seekable (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72135
HIGH 7.8

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · centile 6 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: Make the TPM character devices non-seekable The TPM character devices expose a sequential command/response interface, but their open handlers leave FMODE_PREAD and FMODE_PWRITE enabled. After a command leaves a response pending, pread(fd, buf, 16, 0x1400) passes 0x1400 as *off to tpm_common_read(). The transfer length is bounded by response_length, but the offset is used unchecked when forming data_buffer + *off. A sufficiently large offset therefore causes an out-of-bounds heap read through copy_to_user() and, if the copy succeeds, an out-of-bounds zero-write through the following memset(). Positional I/O does not provide coherent semantics for this interface. An arbitrary pread offset cannot represent how much of a response has been consumed sequentially. The write callback always stores a command at the start of data_buffer, while pwrite() does not update file->f_pos and can leave the sequential read cursor stale. Call nonseekable_open() from both open handlers. This removes FMODE_PREAD and FMODE_PWRITE, causing positional reads and writes to fail with -ESPIPE before reaching the TPM callbacks, and explicitly marks the files non-seekable. Normal read() and write() continue to use the existing sequential f_pos cursor, leaving the response state machine unchanged. Tested on Linux 6.12 with KASAN and a swtpm TPM2 device: - sequential partial reads returned the complete response - pread() and preadv() with offset 0x1400 returned -ESPIPE - pwrite() and pwritev() with offset zero returned -ESPIPE - the pending response remained intact after the rejected operations - a subsequent normal command/response cycle completed normally - no KASAN report was produced.

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < ed0ffc2c016629e40ba041ed0424a772d8b02e2c ; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < 232dcf908eb7eb9d8046a9597975caf44270966e ; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < dda695fab5e21f923d29e8cb01df256468ddfbd1 ; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < 9c513dabd4540f811585a2087f23069767a284da ; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < 21a13f932972bc9836f58c44fcd47c62abdecd95 ; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 < ada4b9a5087ea7f30dd8e4c6411a4fb6547eb1ed
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.0 ; unaffected 0 < 5.0 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD