CVE-2026-31690

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (7.8)—

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

firmware: thead: Fix buffer overflow and use standard endian macros

Addresses two issues in the TH1520 AON firmware protocol driver:

The functionality was re-tested with the GPU power-up sequence, confirming the GPU powers up correctly and the driver probes successfully.

Detalles técnicos trazas, registros y código del informe original

1. Fix a potential buffer overflow where the code used unsafe pointer
   arithmetic to access the 'mode' field through the 'resource' pointer
   with an offset. This was flagged by Smatch static checker as:
   "buffer overflow 'data' 2 <= 3"

2. Replace custom RPC_SET_BE* and RPC_GET_BE* macros with standard
   kernel endianness conversion macros (cpu_to_be16, etc.) for better
   portability and maintainability.

[   12.702370] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] loaded firmware
powervr/rogue_36.52.104.182_v1.fw
[   12.711043] powervr ffef400000.gpu: [drm] FW version v1.0 (build
6645434 OS)
[   12.719787] [drm] Initialized powervr 1.0.0 for ffef400000.gpu on
minor 0

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.19%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 8
Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 %
Impacto principalT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution75 %

Buffer overflow (CWE-787) en driver local (AV:L, PR:L) sin interacción del usuario permite escalada de privilegios y ejecución de código arbitrario en contexto del kernel.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

CWE-787

Referencias

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