CVE-2026-90227 (GCVE-0-2026-90227)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:07
Modified
2026-10-19 09:00
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme/ioctl: check SUBMIT_IO with nvme_cmd_allowed() Unlike IO_CMD / IO64_CMD, NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO never calls nvme_cmd_allowed(). Unprivileged callers can thus issue I/O on a partition device or write through a read-only file descriptor. Pass flags and open_for_write through and reject disallowed commands with -EACCES.
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Linux Linux Version: a53295b6998f62d961c29e54051c1cf1d738c2b3
Version: a53295b6998f62d961c29e54051c1cf1d738c2b3
Version: a53295b6998f62d961c29e54051c1cf1d738c2b3
Version: a53295b6998f62d961c29e54051c1cf1d738c2b3
Version: a53295b6998f62d961c29e54051c1cf1d738c2b3
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