CVE-2026-90230 PUBLISHED

nvmet: fix heap out-of-bounds read in nvmet_auth_negotiate()

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

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

nvmet: fix heap out-of-bounds read in nvmet_auth_negotiate()

nvmet_execute_auth_send() allocates the DH-HMAC-CHAP message buffer with the host-supplied transfer length (tl) and hands it to nvmet_auth_negotiate() without passing tl along. nvmet_auth_negotiate() then reads the negotiate header and, for each of the halen hash identifiers and dhlen DH group identifiers, indexes into the fixed idlist[60] array (hashes at idlist[0..halen), groups at idlist[30..]).

Neither the transfer length nor halen/dhlen is validated. A malicious or non-conformant host can report a tl smaller than the negotiate structure, or a halen/dhlen larger than the array (both are u8, up to 255), making the loops read past the end of the allocated buffer (heap out-of-bounds read). The sibling nvmet_auth_reply() already validates tl against the structure size; the negotiate path did not.

Pass tl into nvmet_auth_negotiate(), reject a tl that does not cover the negotiate data plus one full protocol descriptor, and reject halen/dhlen larger than NVME_AUTH_DHCHAP_MAX_DH_IDS.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 89ff11b72f38976f3b5aea23a5228ee05e277209 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to aaac783950b17c57df9b6f7344747cacb1a407ed (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to c38a8186326799957d293d370136c128cd113916 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 7b81e4d2230e3d2d372c826180c4ef0efc244f31 (excl.)
  • affected from db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to 5bb96cc218835769ab74ec7f3ea2bf81fbffe955 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • 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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