In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: tmc-etf: Fix global-out-of-bounds in tmc_update_etf_buffer()
commit 6f755e85c332 ("coresight: Add helper for inserting synchronization
packets") removed trailing '\0' from barrier_pkt array and updated the
call sites like etb_update_buffer() to have proper checks for barrier_pkt
size before read but missed updating tmc_update_etf_buffer() which still
reads barrier_pkt past the array size resulting in KASAN out-of-bounds
bug. Fix this by adding a check for barrier_pkt size before accessing
like it is done in etb_update_buffer().
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in tmc_update_etf_buffer+0x4b8/0x698
Read of size 4 at addr ffffffd05b7d1030 by task perf/2629
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x27c
show_stack+0x20/0x2c
dump_stack+0x11c/0x188
print_address_description+0x3c/0x4a4
__kasan_report+0x140/0x164
kasan_report+0x10/0x18
__asan_report_load4_noabort+0x1c/0x24
tmc_update_etf_buffer+0x4b8/0x698
etm_event_stop+0x248/0x2d8
etm_event_del+0x20/0x2c
event_sched_out+0x214/0x6f0
group_sched_out+0xd0/0x270
ctx_sched_out+0x2ec/0x518
__perf_event_task_sched_out+0x4fc/0xe6c
__schedule+0x1094/0x16a0
preempt_schedule_irq+0x88/0x170
arm64_preempt_schedule_irq+0xf0/0x18c
el1_irq+0xe8/0x180
perf_event_exec+0x4d8/0x56c
setup_new_exec+0x204/0x400
load_elf_binary+0x72c/0x18c0
search_binary_handler+0x13c/0x420
load_script+0x500/0x6c4
search_binary_handler+0x13c/0x420
exec_binprm+0x118/0x654
__do_execve_file+0x77c/0xba4
__arm64_compat_sys_execve+0x98/0xac
el0_svc_common+0x1f8/0x5e0
el0_svc_compat_handler+0x84/0xb0
el0_svc_compat+0x10/0x50
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
barrier_pkt+0x10/0x40
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffffd05b7d0f00: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
ffffffd05b7d0f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffd05b7d1000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 03
^
ffffffd05b7d1080: fa fa fa fa 00 02 fa fa fa fa fa fa 03 fa fa fa
ffffffd05b7d1100: fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 05 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
==================================================================
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it