CVE-2026-72217

SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before writing

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before writing

xdr_buf_to_bvec() writes a bio_vec into the caller's array before testing whether that slot is in range, and the head branch performs the store with no check at all. When the caller's budget is exactly used up, the next store lands one element past the end of the array. The overflow label returns count - 1, which masks the surplus store but cannot undo it.

rq_bvec, the array passed by nfsd_vfs_write(), is allocated to exactly rq_maxpages entries with no slack. The OOB store can land in adjacent slab memory; the bv_len and bv_offset fields written there are derived from client-supplied RPC payload sizes.

Move the in-range check ahead of the store in the head, page-loop, and tail branches. With the check at the top of each sequence, count is incremented only after a successful store, so the overflow label can return count directly.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2eb2b93581813b74c7174961126f6ec38eadb5a7 to before 4a1148f2739d5089c3ca8ae2e9d1053e219ab5dfAffected
  • 2eb2b93581813b74c7174961126f6ec38eadb5a7 to before 6029e711a818bf34d6c4b90cafee24f3afffa110Affected
  • 2eb2b93581813b74c7174961126f6ec38eadb5a7 to before 69e18135e2a004a79505451dbef07314ea16e1ebAffected
  • 2eb2b93581813b74c7174961126f6ec38eadb5a7 to before 98414b42530af65cb984ffc12685096a3b5e179aAffected
  • 2eb2b93581813b74c7174961126f6ec38eadb5a7 to before 42f5b80dda6b86e424054baf1475df686c403d5cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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