CVE-2026-90221

nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in CORE_INIT_RSP parsing

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in CORE_INIT_RSP parsing

nci_core_init_rsp_packet_v1() and nci_core_init_rsp_packet_v2() parse the CORE_INIT_RSP packet without validating that the skb contains enough data. A malformed response (e.g. injected via virtual_ncidev) can declare a large num_supported_rf_interfaces while providing insufficient data, causing reads of uninitialized slab memory. This is later used in nci_init_complete_req(), triggering a KMSAN uninit-value warning.

Add skb length checks before accessing packet fields: - Validate the skb has at least 1 byte for the status field. - Validate the skb can hold the fixed-size header before parsing. - In v2, bounds-check each variable-length rf_interface entry and its extension parameters within the parsing loop. - In v1, verify the skb is large enough for both the variable-length rf_interfaces array and the trailing rsp_2 structure.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before baed3fdf6ed2195c56f25ae18a086b938dcd3983Affected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before 2f434478771a4ebdd535033561c0590bcde39753Affected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before 5487f04c1ccbfa15aa6e531eb1ec9c9ec9c7bf31Affected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before bbe68e8249e2c76d65adfd9224fa95f1ca0fbe4eAffected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before 4f0483bbcdaccc9d4aee30df7351863334cecfa7Affected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before 7d44b897bff84edcd4814899314d661ad4956a8eAffected
  • bcd684aace34fedbd473fbd9b21ed06b0c2d2212 to before d56575a2595ee1f597f39e8a1cfb67ed3501678dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not 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
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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