CVE-2026-90226 PUBLISHED

nfc: llcp: avoid userspace overflow on invalid optlen

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: avoid userspace overflow on invalid optlen

nfc_llcp_getsockopt() casts optval to (u32 __user *) for put_user(), so the kernel always stores 4 bytes regardless of the caller-supplied optlen. The existing min_t(u32, len, sizeof(u32)) only clamps the length reported back to userspace; it does not constrain the store. A call with optlen < 4 therefore writes past the user buffer, violating the getsockopt(2) contract for all five supported optnames.

Reject any call with optlen < sizeof(u32) up front. 'len' is int, so a plain size comparison would promote a negative optlen to size_t and slip past the check; an explicit 'len < 0' test is added first to catch negative values before the size compare.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 42859562b7cc4313a84a584f338118edb7087066 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 598dcd53c52f8eeb9dd5382198c03960d5d40fcd (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 7e40f2f5e7bc06c3ddef781180ce4f7994176547 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 35573c6cb081af2f4a7caeea291302aca5484526 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to b4c5abaea06292e1dddb70eac1b51589b32c77a3 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 8bf228fa02b1ed8ce622fb81fa8edc42be9aeb67 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to bd6f1277b62bc1df348ca21739df2bc546fcd493 (excl.)
  • affected from 26fd76cab2e61cedc5c25f7151fb31b57ddc53c7 to 99985bfa8336fadcc69190ba2dcbd5386af3d661 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.10 (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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