{"affected":[{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","ecosystem":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr","packageName":"zephyr","product":"zephyr","source":"CNA: zephyr","vendor":"zephyrproject","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.2","status":"affected","version":"4.0.0","versionType":"semver"}]}],"cveId":"CVE-2026-79978","cwes":["CWE-787"],"description":"The RTIO streaming completion callback adxl345_process_fifo_samples_cb() in drivers/sensor/adi/adxl345/adxl345_stream.c clamps the amount of FIFO data it will report (read_len = MIN(fifo_bytes, buf_avail)) to the space actually returned by rtio_sqe_rx_buf(), but then queues one 6-byte bus read per hardware FIFO entry at consecutive offsets from read_buf, bounded by the device-reported entry count rather than by the clamp. When the allocated buffer is smaller than a full batch, the driver writes up to 186 bytes past the end of the allocation; a companion defect left data->fifo_total_bytes un-reset at batch start, so an aborted or errored chain could leave a stale write offset that pushes the next batch's writes out of bounds as well.\n\nA short buffer is an expected, first-class outcome of the RTIO allocator: rtio_block_pool_alloc() walks the requested size down one block at a time until a contiguous run is available, and the driver only demands sizeof(struct adxl345_fifo_data) + 6 bytes as its minimum. Any streaming configuration whose mempool block granularity is smaller than a full FIFO batch (204 bytes) — for example the sensor shell's RTIO_DEFINE_WITH_MEMPOOL(sensor_read_rtio, 8, 8, 32, 64, 4) used by sensor stream <dev> on fifo_wm incl, or the 16-byte-block streaming example in the documentation — takes this path whenever the pool is fragmented or the consuming thread falls behind.\n\nThe out-of-bounds writes are performed by the I2C/SPI RTIO backend (DMA on many SoCs) into the shared RTIO block pool, corrupting neighbouring live buffers or, for a pool smaller than one batch, memory beyond the pool itself. The written bytes are accelerometer samples and the destination follows the allocation, so there is no controllable corruption primitive: the realistic impact is silent corruption of other RTIO consumers' data or a crash. Reaching it requires a board with an interrupt-wired ADXL345 built with CONFIG_ADXL345_STREAM, plus buffer-pool starvation, which a co-resident local workload can induce but which also occurs spontaneously under load; there is no network, USB or radio path to this code.","epss":{"date":"2026-11-01","percentile":0.00458,"score":0.00091},"exploits":[],"kev":null,"metrics":[{"score":3.6,"severity":"low","source":"CNA: zephyr","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"}],"modifiedAt":1793627613370,"publishedAt":1792785374995,"references":[{"source":"CNA: zephyr","tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/3451bb1e1e9165844060551164adb8a756e7b6b7"},{"source":"CNA: zephyr","tags":[],"url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-4v56-r4qm-v964"}],"remediation":[],"revision":"4471f20282475e000ebdae586ebcb2de7a895a12885a2781d60de345ac58371d","sources":[{"modifiedAt":1793627613370,"name":"CNA: zephyr","retrievedAt":1793628547991,"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-79978"},{"modifiedAt":null,"name":"FIRST EPSS","retrievedAt":1793628558652,"url":"https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-79978"}],"ssvc":{"assessedAt":1793627583216,"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","source":"ADP: CISA-ADP","technicalImpact":"partial"},"status":"published","title":"Out-of-bounds write in the ADXL345 sensor driver RTIO streaming FIFO read path","updatedAt":1793628558652}