CVE-2026-80791 PUBLISHED

nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer

nvmet_execute_auth_receive() allocates the response buffer with kmalloc() sized by the host-supplied AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length, but the DH-HMAC-CHAP builders write only a fixed-size message into it. The full allocation length is then copied to the wire by nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), so a remote initiator receives the bytes past the built message -- up to nearly a page of uninitialized slab -- during the pre-authentication handshake.

Allocate the buffer with kzalloc() so the unwritten tail is zeroed before it is sent; conforming responses are unaffected.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 447b668faa14710f611e714031e3739ac3ec3a4f (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 8f6363c8d54dde95982f0ab45e77cf57ec0efd62 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to dfcf013f77709ebdb282767edc2795a37cab5b57 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to b26189d28442183a8b5edb754f4a6918f77ca84e (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 2dcc9226203da7275a9c29d20007da278d73d5e9 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 1d6837d98bf966a041af65de5f78de7409ff83bc (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 3ddcfb013322aa37eaa7a0d344b73079c38dfa21 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.185 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.154 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.106 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.47 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.11 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.1 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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