CVE-2026-89947 clk: meson: align gxbb_32k_clk_sel number of parents with actual count
An out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel Meson clock driver can cause a system crash during initialization on specific hardware.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
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- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-89947?
CVE-2026-89947 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: meson: align gxbb_32k_clk_sel number of parents with actual count
The following out-of-bounds read has been observed by Christian on a GXBB WeTek Hub: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418 Read of size 8 at addr ffffd66320cf88e0 by task swapper/0/1
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT Hardware name: WeTek Hub (DT) Call trace: show_stack+0x14/0x20 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x94 print_report+0x164/0x4b0 kasan_report+0x98/0xd8 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x24 __clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418 devm_clk_hw_register+0x74/0x15c meson_clkc_init+0xd4/0x20c meson_clkc_syscon_probe+0x5c/0x94 platform_probe+0xbc/0x17c really_probe+0x184/0x844 __driver_probe_device+0x154/0x35c driver_probe_device+0x60/0x188 __driver_attach+0x168/0x4a0 bus_for_each_dev+0xec/0x180 driver_attach+0x38/0x58 bus_add_driver+0x238/0x4c0 driver_register+0x150/0x388 __platform_driver_register+0x54/0x7c gxbb_clkc_driver_init+0x18/0x20 do_one_initcall+0xb8/0x340 kernel_init_freeable+0x49c/0x52c kernel_init+0x24/0x148 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
The buggy address belongs to the variable: gxbb_32k_clk_parents+0x60/0x400
The buggy address belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
Memory state around the buggy address: ffffd66320cf8780: 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ffffd66320cf8800: 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 >ffffd66320cf8880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 ^ ffffd66320cf8900: 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 06 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ffffd66320cf8980: 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 ==================================================================
Commit 7915d7d5407c ("clk: amlogic: gxbb: drop non existing 32k clock parent") dropped a non-existing clock parent from the gxbb_32k_clk_sel mux but didn't adjust the hard-coded num_parents field. Fix the actual number of parents of that mux by using ARRAY_SIZE instead (avoiding similar problems in future).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-89947?
How do I fix CVE-2026-89947?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2026-89947 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-89947 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-101472, BELL-CVE-2026-89947, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89947, GHSA-8jgg-jgf5-2v4q, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89947.