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CVE-2026-72135

tpm: Make the TPM character devices non-seekable PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: Make the TPM character devices non-seekable The TPM character devices expose a sequential command/response interface, but their open handlers leave FMODE_PREAD and FMODE_PWRITE enabled. After a command leaves a response pending, pread(fd, buf, 16, 0x1400) passes 0x1400 as *off to tpm_common_read(). The transfer length is bounded by response_length, but the offset is used unchecked when forming data_buffer + *off. A sufficiently large offset therefore causes an out-of-bounds heap read through copy_to_user() and, if the copy succeeds, an out-of-bounds zero-write through the following memset(). Positional I/O does not provide coherent semantics for this interface. An arbitrary pread offset cannot represent how much of a response has been consumed sequentially. The write callback always stores a command at the start of data_buffer, while pwrite() does not update file->f_pos and can leave the sequential read cursor stale. Call nonseekable_open() from both open handlers. This removes FMODE_PREAD and FMODE_PWRITE, causing positional reads and writes to fail with -ESPIPE before reaching the TPM callbacks, and explicitly marks the files non-seekable. Normal read() and write() continue to use the existing sequential f_pos cursor, leaving the response state machine unchanged. Tested on Linux 6.12 with KASAN and a swtpm TPM2 device: - sequential partial reads returned the complete response - pread() and preadv() with offset 0x1400 returned -ESPIPE - pwrite() and pwritev() with offset zero returned -ESPIPE - the pending response remained intact after the rejected operations - a subsequent normal command/response cycle completed normally - no KASAN report was produced.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before ed0ffc2c016629e40ba041ed0424a772d8b02e2c; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before 232dcf908eb7eb9d8046a9597975caf44270966e; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before dda695fab5e21f923d29e8cb01df256468ddfbd1; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before 9c513dabd4540f811585a2087f23069767a284da; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before 21a13f932972bc9836f58c44fcd47c62abdecd95; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before ada4b9a5087ea7f30dd8e4c6411a4fb6547eb1ed; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before 947b773caaa548672184df025271b29bdc80b0f1; affected 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 before f20d61c22bcaf172d6790b6500e3838e532e71c8
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.0; unaffected 0 before 5.0; unaffected 5.10.261 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.212 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.178 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.145 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.97 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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