CVE-2026-89969

9.8 CRITICAL

Published 2026-09-16 · Updated 2026-09-16

AI risk analysis

Summary: This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform an out-of-bounds write by sending an over-long PDU, potentially corrupting adjacent kernel memory.
Exploitability: Exploitation requires sending a crafted PDU to the affected system, which can be done by a remote unauthenticated attacker.
Blast radius: If exploited, the attacker could gain control over the system or cause a denial of service by corrupting critical kernel memory.
Detection: No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation: Upgrade to the fixed version 5.17.10 or later.

memory-corruptionremote-code-executionkernel-vulnerability

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-tcp: fix out-of-bounds write when receiving an over-long PDU nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu() reads a PDU header into the fixed 128-byte queue->pdu union, then computes the remaining payload length as queue->left = hdr->hlen - queue->offset + hdgst; and reads that many more bytes into &queue->pdu + queue->offset, without ever bounding the result against sizeof(queue->pdu). A struct nvme_tcp_icreq_pdu is itself 128 bytes, exactly the size of the union. Once a header digest has been negotiated (hdgst = 4), a second ICReq passes the hlen == nvmet_tcp_pdu_size() check but yields queue->left = 128 - 8 + 4 = 124, so bytes 8..132 are written into the 128-byte buffer -- 4 bytes past its end, over queue->hdr_digest and queue->data_digest. Those bytes are attacker-controlled (an ICReq carries no digest), and the duplicate ICReq is only rejected later, after the overflow. A remote unauthenticated host can thus corrupt kernel memory adjacent to the receive buffer. Reject any PDU whose declared length would read past the end of queue->pdu before the second recv.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

All references

Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.

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