In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_debug: Fix REPORT ZONES alloc_len underflow OOB write re…
CVE-2026-74470 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 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: 5.16
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How to fix
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: scsi_debug: Fix REPORT ZONES alloc_len underflow OOB write
resp_report_zones() sizes the reply buffer from the CDB allocation
length. The v3 fix rounds alloc_len up with ALIGN() before deriving the
descriptor count:
rep_max_zones = (ALIGN((u64)alloc_len, RZONES_DESC_HD) -
RZONES_DESC_HD) >> ilog2(RZONES_DESC_HD);
arr_len = (u64)RZONES_DESC_HD * (rep_max_zones + 1);
For alloc_len in 0xFFFFFFC1..0xFFFFFFFF, ALIGN() rounds up to
0x100000000, so arr_len is 4 GB. On 32-bit, kzalloc()'s size_t is 32-bit
and truncates 0x100000000 to 0; kzalloc(0) returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which
passes the !arr check, and desc = arr + 64 is then dereferenced in the
loop -> out-of-bounds write / panic.
Clamp rep_max_zones to devip->nr_zones. The loop already stops at
sdebug_capacity (after nr_zones zones), so a report can never hold more
than nr_zones descriptors; the clamp does not change the report, it only
bounds arr_len to (nr_zones + 1) * RZONES_DESC_HD, a real device
property that can never reach 0x100000000.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2047ed09bf13453b7d6f9431b112ec07984dd69b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/495058429ca55ab7fcc21977b63b92907ad68066
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/49e5b25a0b74dbac595f122e5608fdce2918cc4e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d3e1d006bbb543259f9e31824caadbfff6a5465
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b615fc139e35c81077046df44725c532f7e2404
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/93dde0bf2f39a0f9f57fd610aa3201ce5b753433
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6e6da6bc3b53231fac77ffab428da8173ee729c
Merged from NVD. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON