CVE-2026-93120 json
usb: gadget: configfs: fix out-of-bounds read of qw_sign
published 2026-09-17 53 d ago modified 2026-10-19 21 d ago also EUVD-2026-82228
- cvss
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- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: configfs: fix out-of-bounds read of qw_sign
os_desc_qw_sign_show() passes OS_STRING_QW_SIGN_LEN as the input length to utf16s_to_utf8s(), but that argument counts UTF-16 code units while OS_STRING_QW_SIGN_LEN (14) is the byte size of qw_sign[]. The array holds only OS_STRING_QW_SIGN_LEN / 2 (7) code units, so the conversion reads up to 7 units (14 bytes) past the end of qw_sign[] into the following members of struct gadget_info when the stored signature fills the array without a NUL terminator, exposing those bytes through the configfs attribute.
The store path halves the count for its input bound but passes the full byte count as the utf8s_to_utf16s() output limit; use the destination code-unit count in both directions.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
- linux Debian 12 6.1.190-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.111-1
- linux Debian 14 7.2.6-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93120
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-202.212
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1119.126
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1120.130
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1115.121
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1113.117
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-93120
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
- kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.2.7-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1
- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.157.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-102551
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b895dbed8ac9e12a5ffa1a2165575a8469f8340d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b45125501aad2dff7730970461b455b0e0658ee commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6da500b0f8106882598b6dec87fe37d653946cf commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a28c486434634f6d1e120711d2b09f3eddea6c98 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e94cb967778e074411940db4db97f22ed77560c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/afbf39c0f2297c6abef6d670a82a2079b0836191 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/36315a330e067f7773196940552feacb1debbef1 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f63edb54d8f738f9c21e2068c777ae1c097df6b7 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-93120 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: usb: gadget: configfs: fix out-of-bounds read of qw_sign
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9not affected: vulnerable code not present
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Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b895dbed8ac9e12a5ffa1a2165575a8469f8340d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9b45125501aad2dff7730970461b455b0e0658ee
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f6da500b0f8106882598b6dec87fe37d653946cf
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a28c486434634f6d1e120711d2b09f3eddea6c98
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7e94cb967778e074411940db4db97f22ed77560c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/afbf39c0f2297c6abef6d670a82a2079b0836191
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/36315a330e067f7773196940552feacb1debbef1
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f63edb54d8f738f9c21e2068c777ae1c097df6b7
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-93120
- NVD CVE-2026-93120
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