CVE-2026-64320

nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page

nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page() validates only the dword alignment of the host-supplied Log Page Offset (lpo). The 64-bit offset is then added to a small kzalloc'd buffer that holds the discovery log page and the result is passed straight to nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), which memcpy()s data_len bytes out to the host with no source-side bound check:

u64 offset = nvmet_get_log_page_offset(req->cmd); /* 64-bit host */ size_t data_len = nvmet_get_log_page_len(req->cmd); /* 32-bit host */ ... if (offset & 0x3) { ... } /* only check */ ... alloc_len = sizeof(*hdr) + entry_size * discovery_log_entries(req); buffer = kzalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL); ... status = nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + offset, data_len);

The Discovery controller is unauthenticated -- nvmet_host_allowed() returns true unconditionally for the discovery subsystem -- so the call is reachable pre-authentication by any TCP/RDMA/FC peer that can reach the nvmet target. With a discovery log page of ~1 KiB, an attacker requesting up to 4 KiB starting at offset == alloc_len reads the next slab page out and gets its content returned over the fabric (an empirical run on a default nvmet-tcp loopback target leaked 81 canonical kernel pointers in one Get Log Page response). Pointing the offset at unmapped kernel memory faults the in-kernel memcpy and crashes (or panics, on panic_on_oops=1) the target host instead.

The attacker-controlled source-side offset pattern "nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, buffer + ATTACKER_OFFSET, ...)" is unique to nvmet_execute_disc_get_log_page in the entire nvmet codebase: every other Get Log Page handler in admin-cmd.c either ignores lpo (and silently starts every response at offset 0) or tracks a local destination offset with a fixed source pointer.

Validate the host-supplied offset against the log page size, cap the copy length to what is actually available, and zero-fill any remainder of the host transfer buffer. The zero-fill matches the existing short-response pattern in nvmet_execute_get_log_changed_ns() (admin-cmd.c) and prevents leaking transport SGL contents when the host asks for more bytes than the log page contains.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before ff815b5e8688dcf68529b7f0fde8de5847f63f1eAffected
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before 8ae9bb92fc9a712a8d32da9c5fd657101f9b260bAffected
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before 33b974eb626154ae9348f2bac7de84cb2a3d9dd4Affected
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before 56c021a0869260d04c4b65d1471936aaf9177114Affected
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before a29b316b9bbfd269f323ab4ba9906a894025680fAffected
  • a07b4970f464f13640e28e16dad6cfa33647cc99 to before 53cd102a7a56079b11b897835bd9b94c14e6322cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.8Affected
  • before 4.8Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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