nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers
CVE-2026-72130 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: critical, CVSS score 9.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to < 584d7d14d9b40b080b1195cec83de86ade63343e, db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to < 80bf7b7f676e3987bbe06af3c359bd56ac91a5a9, db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to < 2eaa3ad450141cfcf187bb43cb8335eb336b5f87, db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to < bc111698b46e43eddd8664cceaa621cd559e99a0
- Linux Linux: 6.0
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers
nvmet_execute_auth_receive() trusts the AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length
after checking only that it is nonzero and matches the transfer length.
In the SUCCESS1 and FAILURE1/default states, that lets a remote NVMe-oF
initiator reach the fixed-size DH-HMAC-CHAP response builders with a
kmalloc() buffer shorter than the response, so nvmet_auth_success1() and
nvmet_auth_failure1() write past the allocation; both only WARN_ON the
short length and then format the message anyway.
Impact: A remote NVMe-oF initiator with access to an auth-enabled target
can trigger a 16-byte heap out-of-bounds write via a one-byte
AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length.
Compute the minimum response length for the current DH-HMAC-CHAP step in
nvmet_auth_receive_data_len() and report a zero data length when the
host-supplied allocation length is shorter, so the existing zero-length
check in nvmet_execute_auth_receive() rejects the command before any
builder runs. The SUCCESS1 minimum is sizeof(struct
nvmf_auth_dhchap_success1_data) plus the HMAC hash length, because the
response hash is written into the rval[] flexible-array tail, so the
minimum is state dependent rather than a flat sizeof. CHALLENGE keeps its
existing variable-length guard in nvmet_auth_challenge().
This is reachable only when in-band DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication is
configured on the target.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/584d7d14d9b40b080b1195cec83de86ade63343e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/80bf7b7f676e3987bbe06af3c359bd56ac91a5a9
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2eaa3ad450141cfcf187bb43cb8335eb336b5f87
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc111698b46e43eddd8664cceaa621cd559e99a0
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/779575bc35c687697ba69e904f2cd22e60112534
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