Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-72241

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: leds: uleds: Fix potential buffer overread The name string supplied by userspace is not guaranteed to be null-terminated, so using strchr() on it might result in a buffer overread. The same thing will happen when said string is used by the LED class device. Fix this by using strnchr() instead and explicitly check that the name string is properly null-terminated.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions e381322b0190c1253d347de3f28b5c37756fb651, 4.10, 0

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