CVE-2026-90223

About vulnerability

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

nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and add length checks

nfc_llcp_recv_snl() walked the SNL TLV list using a u16 offset/length pair derived from skb->len, without bounding reads to the actual skb data. Three problems followed:

• For a short frame (skb->len < LLCP_HEADER_SIZE), tlv_len underflowed.
• The per-TLV header (type, length) was read without checking that two bytes remained.
• A declared TLV length could run past the end of the buffer, and an SDREQ with length == 0 made “service_name_len = length - 1” underflow (size_t), driving an out-of-bounds read in the following strncmp() / nfc_llcp_sock_from_sn(). The SDRES case likewise read tlv[2]/tlv[3] without a length check.

A nearby NFC device can reach this without authentication; LLCP link activation happens automatically after NFC-DEP.

Walk the TLV list by pointer, bounded by skb_tail_pointer() over the linear skb data, and validate each TLV declared length before use. Add explicit length checks for SDREQ (>= 1) and SDRES (exactly 2).

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

linux @ 5.4.0 (+17 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.