CVE-2026-46190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: spi-nor: debugfs: fix out-of-bounds read in spi_nor_params_show()
Sashiko noticed an out-of-bounds read [1].
In spi_nor_params_show(), the snor_f_names array is passed to spi_nor_print_flags() using sizeof(snor_f_names).
Since snor_f_names is an array of pointers, sizeof() returns the total number of bytes occupied by the pointers (element_count * sizeof(void *)) rather than the element count itself. On 64-bit systems, this makes the passed length 8x larger than intended.
Inside spi_nor_print_flags(), the 'names_len' argument is used to bounds-check the 'names' array access. An out-of-bounds read occurs if a flag bit is set that exceeds the array's actual element count but is within the inflated byte-size count.
Correct this by using ARRAY_SIZE() to pass the actual number of string pointers in the array.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/34bdcfb496b29f9a52431194f94473b37fb8c162nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a80c458320e0514e11945402dd6e48fcee05524nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0b654bc0b76a1da102d9138be1ed1223bd99310nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca18c180b053f6ce80394322b314ac721c316af7nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e47029b977e747cb3a9174308fd55762cce70147nvdPatch
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