platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: bound enumeration string aggregation
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: bound enumeration string aggregation populate_enum_data() aggregates firmware-provided value-modifier and possible-value strings into fixed 512-byte struct members. The current code bounds each individual source string but then appends every string and separator with raw strcat() and no remaining-space check. Switch the aggregation loops to a bounded append helper and reject enumeration packages whose combined strings do not fit in the destination buffers. [ij: add include]
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: bound enumeration string aggregation populate_enum_data() aggregates firmware-provided value-modifier and possible-value strings into fixed 512-byte struct members. The current code bounds each individual source string but then appends every string and separator with raw strcat() and no remaining-space check. Switch the aggregation loops to a bounded append helper and reject enumeration packages whose combined strings do not fit in the destination buffers. [ij: add include]
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c34471c26abc52a37f5ad90949e2e4b8027eb14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a04f9a36930792f6d64e28d43609e158d09b665
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75c738d4f27fa18a2a033de153bd40302bde6a66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3dc1f764bf24eb99474a5de8173b0b43a8b071
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90b118d264845f7aaf539ac49f7c75f1f29590e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba0843c1955864401295f7ba3b420afe19f2266d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5683ca4949a514fbe656c6d0d08c4c126e21db9
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53022.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53022