CVE-2026-80794

nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers

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Published: September 4, 2026 at 03:13 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers nci_rf_discover_ntf_packet() and nci_rf_intf_activated_ntf_packet() each parse a notification into an on-stack struct (nci_rf_discover_ntf / nci_rf_intf_activated_ntf) that is not initialised. The RF technology-specific parameters are only extracted when rf_tech_specific_params_len is non-zero, so a notification that reports a zero length leaves the rf_tech_specific_params union uninitialised - and both handlers then pass it to nci_add_new_protocol(), which reads it: - discover: nci_add_new_target() -> nci_add_new_protocol(); - activated: nci_target_auto_activated() -> nci_add_new_protocol(). nci_add_new_protocol() uses nfca_poll->nfcid1_len as both a branch condition and a memcpy() length and copies nfcid1/sens_res/sel_res into ndev->targets, which is later exposed to user space via NFC_CMD_GET_TARGET. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nci_add_new_protocol+0x624/0x6c0 nci_add_new_protocol+0x624/0x6c0 nci_ntf_packet+0x25b2/0x3c30 nci_rx_work+0x318/0x5d0 process_scheduled_works+0x84b/0x17a0 worker_thread+0xc10/0x11b0 kthread+0x376/0x500 Local variable ntf.i created at: nci_ntf_packet+0xbc2/0x3c30 Zero-initialise both on-stack notifications so the union reads back as zero when no technology-specific parameters are present.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

3.3e8c0dacd9836dc2dcb28d236c9cc3cfaa9965a20
Vendor states this is fixed in 0d4b5cfab6891a5ca0f6aef209beebba4bd7c095 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1007a6b429d756513abd25bd00290908f2e89a4a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4bda9ef8392710f21e99027467f3f4afdfb5c99a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5bd00c0e1470d90d77a7c60242854257ddf14e00 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7086dab72b3ed95df96842801e10e935cfeb27a3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7489f59d1ea2d3298aa41de7baf193e5e6e132f6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8cbe06c1e699c0a165dae5093a2550e65f914818 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d6f743d3d388913135681cde051c08823730194f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fe69fed3495f676578d49414a069ad7d8468e2ce (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.269 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.218 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.185 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.106 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.47 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.154 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

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