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CVE-2026-11743: bounds in zephyrproject zephyr

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-11743cvecve-2026-11743
Published: 08/07/2026 (08/07/2026, 21:10:23 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: zephyrproject
Product: zephyr

Description

The SF32LB MPI QSPI NOR flash driver (drivers/flash/flash_sf32lb_mpi_qspi_nor.c) validated the flash offset and length on its read and write paths with the test (offset + size) > data->size. Because offset is a signed off_t while size is unsigned, a negative offset is converted to a large unsigned value and the addition can wrap to a small result that passes the check. The read path then performs memcpy(dst, (void *)(data->base + offset), size) and the write path programs flash at offset and cache-invalidates data->base + offset, in both cases accessing memory outside the mapped flash window. The driver's erase path already rejected negative offsets, but read and write did not. In builds with CONFIG_USERSPACE, flash_read and flash_write are syscalls whose verifiers validate the device object and the caller's buffer but deliberately delegate offset bounds checking to the driver. An unprivileged thread that has been granted access to this flash device can therefore call the syscall with a crafted negative offset and a buffer valid in its own memory domain, and reach the unchecked access. The most direct impact is on the read path: by choosing a negative offset and matching size, an attacker slides the memcpy source below the flash base and copies arbitrary CPU-addressable memory into its own buffer, disclosing memory it is not authorized to read. The write path additionally allows programming flash at an out-of-range address and invalidating an attacker-chosen cache range, affecting integrity and availability. Reachability requires userspace to be enabled and the raw flash device object to be granted to an untrusted thread. The fix replaces the check with qspi_nor_range_is_valid(), which rejects negative offsets and performs the bound comparison in overflow-safe 64-bit arithmetic on both paths, and additionally adds an SRAM DMA bounce buffer plus source/destination overlap rejection to prevent a separate DMA bus-hang condition.

CVSS v3.1

Score 6.6medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Affected software

GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
zephyr
pkg:github/zephyr
Affected versions
>=4.3.0 <4.4.2

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
zephyr
Date Reserved
2026-06-09T05:26:14.980Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a764da6bf8831d5392fda8a

Added to database: 08/07/2026, 21:27:02 UTC

Last updated: 08/07/2026, 21:27:02 UTC

Views: 1

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