CVE-2026-98582 PUBLISHED

nfc: st21nfca: validate received frame size

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: st21nfca: validate received frame size

st21nfca_hci_i2c_repack() trims a received frame at its EOF marker before removing byte stuffing. It then assumes the truncated frame contains the LLC header and two CRC bytes, and it unconditionally reads the byte after an escape marker.

A malformed frame can place EOF immediately after the start marker or can end its data portion with an escape marker. The former leaves too few bytes for check_crc(), while the latter makes the unstuffing loop read past the current skb length.

Require the minimum framing bytes both before and after unstuffing. Use separate input and output cursors while removing byte stuffing, and reject an escape marker without its encoded byte. This keeps malformed frames within the received frame boundary before CRC processing.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to 8934d2889ae16a7c77520e002398d0689c1ecea5 (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to d0596ee6c4b928a5c288790522a7495ee867da72 (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to f526c218a149a30f110ce434ff17e033042404b8 (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to d4008c3499dba7829bfe002edd99a8bff8ae3a7c (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to 91be5161f37b0a2795ad6806d69be5fa74522e5c (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to 57919d0662d8856211b794140172e51ca389f23d (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to 7b996cc06dda54c02a5aa607bda01109f0ac51e6 (excl.)
  • affected from 3096e25a3e40b73afd59e46f3bf8d84f919992a1 to a653c01ce447f10c36b901646888c0330363af4f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.16 (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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