CVE-2026-89480

nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes

nvme_tcp_recv_data() completes a request once the current C2HData PDU has been consumed. Nothing compares the total bytes received against the length the command asked for: struct nvme_tcp_request has no receive-side counter, queue->data_remaining is per queue, and blk_mq_end_request() completes for blk_rq_bytes(rq) unconditionally with no residual concept anywhere above.

A controller can therefore answer a 4096-byte read with 512 bytes and have it reported as a complete read; user space then gets 4096 bytes of which 3584 are whatever was already in the page. I reproduced that with a test target.

Count the bytes received and refuse to complete a successful read whose count does not match, at the two NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS paths and in nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(). The success test shifts req->status right by one, because the driver keeps the wire value there and shifts it on completion, so the check must see what the completion path will see. Only REQ_OP_READ is checked, because there the length comes from the sectors the request covers; a passthrough command is built by its submitter, which picks both command and buffer, so the kernel has nothing to compare against.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before b674af31d044a86bd094ba8bb8f2bb92fb49aac5Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before a5c1bb0fb1bab2f24a081339c145870697f6d220Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before aa107e3a68f4af177d60f2d87679e7f67179a36cAffected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before fca3ebb63e5c82561cd9934365dcc0d068008006Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before 99066cf9bba175f610ceb61a35f6fc9fbc33ff65Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before 8a02ad98798fd01f51f648c1fdd8f3c9d07195d3Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before 832a685efeb5d925ee7d30011d2dbe45f81447a3Affected
  • 3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796 to before 7fa3f73f6c8ddc5f0425b50fb2a626a782ef7d12Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.0Affected
  • before 5.0Not affected
  • 5.10.273 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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