nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80791
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer nvmet_execute_auth_receive() allocates the response buffer with kmalloc() sized by the host-supplied AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length, but the DH-HMAC-CHAP builders write only a fixed-size message into it. The full allocation length is then copied to the wire by nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), so a remote initiator receives the bytes past the built message -- up to nearly a page of uninitialized slab -- during the pre-authentication handshake. Allocate the buffer with kzalloc() so the unwritten tail is zeroed before it is sent; conforming responses are unaffected.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < 447b668faa14710f611e714031e3739ac3ec3a4f ; affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < 8f6363c8d54dde95982f0ab45e77cf57ec0efd62 ; affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < dfcf013f77709ebdb282767edc2795a37cab5b57 ; affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < b26189d28442183a8b5edb754f4a6918f77ca84e ; affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < 2dcc9226203da7275a9c29d20007da278d73d5e9 ; affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 < 1d6837d98bf966a041af65de5f78de7409ff83bc
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.185 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.154 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.106 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.47 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD