Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet-auth: validate reply message payload bounds against transfer length
nvmet_auth_reply() accesses the variable-length rval[] array using attacker-controlled hl (hash length) and dhvlen (DH value length) fields without verifying they fit within the allocated buffer of tl bytes.
A malicious NVMe-oF initiator can craft a DHCHAP_REPLY message with a small transfer length but large hl/dhvlen values, causing out-of-bounds heap reads when the target processes the DH public key (rval + 2*hl) or performs the host response memcmp.
With DH authentication configured, the OOB pointer is passed directly to sg_init_one() and read by crypto_kpp_compute_shared_secret(), reaching up to 526 bytes past the buffer. This is exploitable pre-authentication.
Add bounds validation ensuring sizeof(data) + 2hl + dhvlen <= tl before any access to the variable-length fields.
Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9 | In Rollout |
119 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 | In Rollout |
118 kernels
|
| RHEL 10 | Planned | — |
| RHEL 9 | In Rollout |
116 kernels
|
| Rocky Linux 9 | In Rollout |
94 kernels
|