CVE-2026-80788 (GCVE-0-2026-80788)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-04 15:12
Modified
2026-10-19 08:43
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations
When fuzzing the nvme target code, I tripped a kernel warning in
nvmet_tcp_map_data() because the length passed into the allocator is
controlled by the remote initiator.
A remote initiator that sends a command with an SGL claiming a huge
number, can create a scatterlist and iovec allocation of over 1 million
entries, which causes the backing kmalloc call to exceed MAX_PAGE_ORDER
and then the page allocator will trip on a WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP() message:
WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5280 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof
Workqueue: nvmet_tcp_wq nvmet_tcp_io_work
...
sgl_alloc_order
nvmet_tcp_map_data
nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu
As it's never good to trip a kernel warning remotely due to many systems
having panic-on-warn enabled, let's silence it by just add GFP_NOWARN to
the allocation flags.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30 |
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