CVE-2026-89480

nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:43 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes nvme_tcp_recv_data() completes a request once the current C2HData PDU has been consumed. Nothing compares the total bytes received against the length the command asked for: struct nvme_tcp_request has no receive-side counter, queue->data_remaining is per queue, and blk_mq_end_request() completes for blk_rq_bytes(rq) unconditionally with no residual concept anywhere above. A controller can therefore answer a 4096-byte read with 512 bytes and have it reported as a complete read; user space then gets 4096 bytes of which 3584 are whatever was already in the page. I reproduced that with a test target. Count the bytes received and refuse to complete a successful read whose count does not match, at the two NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS paths and in nvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(). The success test shifts req->status right by one, because the driver keeps the wire value there and shifts it on completion, so the check must see what the completion path will see. Only REQ_OP_READ is checked, because there the length comes from the sectors the request covers; a passthrough command is built by its submitter, which picks both command and buffer, so the kernel has nothing to compare against.

Affected

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

3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca7965.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 7fa3f73f6c8ddc5f0425b50fb2a626a782ef7d12 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 832a685efeb5d925ee7d30011d2dbe45f81447a3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8a02ad98798fd01f51f648c1fdd8f3c9d07195d3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 99066cf9bba175f610ceb61a35f6fc9fbc33ff65 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a5c1bb0fb1bab2f24a081339c145870697f6d220 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in aa107e3a68f4af177d60f2d87679e7f67179a36c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fca3ebb63e5c82561cd9934365dcc0d068008006 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.109 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.50 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

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