CVE-2026-74694
net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 22, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 22, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 15, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length
ncsi_send_cmd_nl() takes the number of bytes to copy from the attacker-controlled ncsi_pkt_hdr.length field of the in-band packet header, while the source buffer is the NCSI_ATTR_DATA netlink attribute whose readable size is nla_len() - sizeof(ncsi_pkt_hdr). The two length sources are never cross-checked: only nla_len() >= sizeof(struct ncsi_pkt_hdr) is enforced.
With hdr->length set larger than the attribute payload (up to 65535 against at most 2032 readable bytes), ncsi_cmd_handler_oem() copies past the end of the netlink attribute buffer with unsafe_memcpy(), leaking up to ~64KB of kernel heap memory into the transmitted NCSI command packet. The destination skb is sized by the declared payload, so the write side does not overflow - this is a pure OOB read / information leak, reachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN on systems with a registered NCSI device (e.g. OpenBMC on Aspeed BMC SoCs, where NET_NCSI=y is standard).
Reject commands whose declared payload extends past the end of the data attribute.
The issue was found by the autokbug dynamic kernel fuzzer at Tencent Yunding Lab.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e60afa01d35f8b2671b27ca93309921427144cce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67c72b8ef63d9d9a610546fda30b116638f39745
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4489b4a17892750131e4bef4bc1d3d703c8fb5ba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c7d0a6917751ea898ae584d00f24f5deac46d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5231ad0b376b801ab8cf2962b182cc29deaedb3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02226af69362758046822840fc6a497f5de33f00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a60b5af75abe8e3494ccd074fb4ae6e601a3e55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afa58b7384913c8773d837acdb07b035690ec5d2
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