CVE-2026-98579 PUBLISHED

nfc: llcp: fix sdreq TLV list leak on parse/alloc/send failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

nfc: llcp: fix sdreq TLV list leak on parse/alloc/send failure

nfc_genl_llc_sdreq() builds a list of TLV nodes while walking nested netlink attrs, but 3 error paths (nested-attr parse failure, TLV alloc ENOMEM, nfc_llcp_send_snl_sdreq() failure) all skip freeing what was already queued.

Route them through a new free_list label, mirroring the SDRES path in the same file which already does this. Harmless on the success path too -- send_snl_sdreq() drains the list as it moves nodes, so it's already empty by the time free_list runs.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to 5b1eca82085134bd92cd3810b0ef003c91e3f668 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to d3f60a7fc291d08cd9192a3b4cd5d3a223fa7d02 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to 755bfc409748d8f3df64eb0eb26926270de3dd77 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to e43ec0191c1630f41e7043ac729ea6f1b8044a7f (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to 08d2c069239ab425fdd333784a6a3b3e034e4aa0 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to cbde7f5d326172d6dbb55cca0df42fa7e1ed8115 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to 0b01a946b0f234f5badd25968610b585a4895f08 (excl.)
  • affected from d9b8d8e19b073096d3609bbd60f82148d128b555 to 66f4300206b82b0b143ef0d9be90cd8d29f23a47 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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