CVE-2026-23390

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow

The dma_map_sg tracepoint can trigger a perf buffer overflow when

tracing large scatter-gather lists. With devices like virtio-gpu

creating large DRM buffers, nents can exceed 1000 entries, resulting

in:

phys_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes

dma_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes

lengths: 1000 * 4 bytes = 4,000 bytes

Total: ~20,000 bytes

This exceeds PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE (8192 bytes), causing:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5497 at kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:405

perf buffer not large enough, wanted 24620, have 8192

Cap all three dynamic arrays at 128 entries using min() in the array

size calculation. This ensures arrays are only as large as needed

(up to the cap), avoiding unnecessary memory allocation for small

operations while preventing overflow for large ones.

The tracepoint now records the full nents/ents counts and a tru

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References