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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-98143

Linux kernel: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode Bits 15:14 of NPU_SET_{IFM,OFM}_PRECISION select the activation storage mode on U85 only.

At a glance

Exploited
Not known
Severity
7.8 High (CVSS 3.1)
Chance of exploitation
0.1% in the next 30 days
Sources
1 source

What to do

Check the vendor advisory for affected versions and fixes.

Read NVD CVE-2026-98143 (opens a new tab)

What happened

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

accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode

Bits 15:14 of NPU_SET_{IFM,OFM}_PRECISION select the activation storage mode on U85 only. On U65 the same field holds the rounding mode, and the command stream parser has read it as a storage mode since the driver was added.

That went unnoticed while unknown values fell through the switch, but now that they are rejected, every U65 command stream that asks for natural rounding (2) fails CMDSTREAM_BO_CREATE with -EINVAL. Mesa emits it for average pooling, concatenation, split, unpack, strided slice, LUT and argmax, which is 72 failures of the Teflon test suite on an i.MX93.

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Truncating rounding (1) is misread as well: it picks the two-tile address path and computes a bogus feature map size from tile bases the command stream never set.

Read the field as a storage mode only on the hardware where it is one.

Scores and how they were measured

CVSS base severity

7.8

Version 3.1As of

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Measurement source (opens a new tab)

How bad it is if exploited. Not a prediction of exploitation or proof you are exposed.

EPSS probability

0.1%

Scored Percentile 1.4%

Model and measurement source (opens a new tab)

A model's estimate of exploitation in the next 30 days, not certainty or your own risk.

Related technology

Sources

  1. Primary source

    NVD CVE-2026-98143 (opens a new tab)

    NVD record: description, CVSS (the CNA score is preferred), affected products, and publication date. Not evidence of exploitation.

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  2. Primary source

    NVD CVE API 2.0 (opens a new tab)

    The NVD API page that supplied this CVE record.

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    FIRST measured EPSS score (opens a new tab)

    Measured EPSS probability and percentile for CVE-2026-98143, scored 2026-10-26. This is a model estimate, not proof of exposure.

    Published Checked

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, October 26). Linux kernel: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode (CVE-2026-98143). https://kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-98143

MLA

"Linux kernel: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode (CVE-2026-98143)." KEVWire, 26 Oct. 2026, kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-98143.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Linux kernel: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode (CVE-2026-98143)." Last modified October 26, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-98143.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Linux kernel: accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode (Sep 25, 2026).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

accel: ethosu: Don't read the U65 rounding mode as a storage mode

Bits 15:14 of NPU_SET_{IFM,OFM}_PRECISION select the activation storage
mode on U85 only. On U65 the same field holds the rounding mode, and the
command stream parser has read it as a storage mode since the driver was
added.

That went unnoticed while unknown values fell through the switch, but
now that they are rejected, every U65 command stream that asks for
natural rounding (2) fails CMDSTREAM_BO_CREATE with -EINVAL. Mesa emits
it for average pooling, concatenation, split, unpack, strided slice, LUT
and argmax, which is 72 failures of the Teflon test suite on an i.MX93.
Truncating rounding (1) is misread as well: it picks the two-tile
address path and computes a bogus feature map size from tile bases the
command stream never set.

Read the field as a storage mode only on the hardware where it is one.
CVSS 7.8 (version 3.1; evidence as of Oct 26, 2026; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98143).
EPSS 0.1% for the following 30 days, scored Oct 26, 2026 (https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-98143&date=2026-10-26).
Sources:
NVD CVE-2026-98143: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98143
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-10-26T18:27:03.991Z&lastModEndDate=2026-10-26T20:00:55.952Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=0
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-10-26T17:56:10.576Z&lastModEndDate=2026-10-26T19:25:57.867Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=500
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-10-26T17:21:53.012Z&lastModEndDate=2026-10-26T18:55:55.651Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=500
FIRST measured EPSS score: https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-98143&date=2026-10-26
Record ID: CVE-2026-98143.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
Known exploitation: Not assessed.
Zero-day status: Not assessed. KEV membership alone does not establish zero-day status.
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This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 27, 2026, 01:40 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

NVD status: Analyzed. Publication in the NVD is not evidence of exploitation.

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