CVE-2026-90223 PUBLISHED

nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and add length checks

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and add length checks

nfc_llcp_recv_snl() walked the SNL TLV list using a u16 offset/length pair derived from skb->len, without bounding reads to the actual skb data. Three problems followed:

  • For a short frame (skb->len < LLCP_HEADER_SIZE), tlv_len underflowed.
  • The per-TLV header (type, length) was read without checking that two bytes remained.
  • A declared TLV length could run past the end of the buffer, and an SDREQ with length == 0 made "service_name_len = length - 1" underflow (size_t), driving an out-of-bounds read in the following strncmp() / nfc_llcp_sock_from_sn(). The SDRES case likewise read tlv[2]/tlv[3] without a length check.

A nearby NFC device can reach this without authentication; LLCP link activation happens automatically after NFC-DEP.

Walk the TLV list by pointer, bounded by skb_tail_pointer() over the linear skb data, and validate each TLV declared length before use. Add explicit length checks for SDREQ (>= 1) and SDRES (exactly 2).

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to 88b36d36e12c9ba76decdb580d9c1907c084e587 (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to 587fc2a5a35b41883b22b8f808fe5d345208914b (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to f04ac9bf2379f3e2470c400c235eb12f74891bef (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to 02030f95820c42431280f4f945ff34247fb840ff (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to 99fdb5c2522f365efa199d0117b641e35097041e (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to 749a9048bf51a668ec3ab6c0392ba32325607281 (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to eeb16fb24cfe67947b832fd9ada5f488afc72579 (excl.)
  • affected from 19cfe5843e86cc95542d9d875c9386e197956d75 to f4c7f37f0ab990952539dc68d931d65c3657600a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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