{"cve":"CVE-2026-90413","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-17T17:17:43.430","modified":"2026-10-19T09:19:35.470","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/isert: reject login PDUs declaring more data than was received\n\nisert_login_recv_done() records how many bytes the HCA actually placed in\nthe login buffer, but nothing compares that against the length the login\nPDU's BHS declares.  isert_rx_login_req() copies min(login_req_len,\nMAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) bytes into login->req_buf, and the login code then\nreads the declared length back out of that buffer - for the first PDU in\niscsi_target_locate_portal(),\n\n\tpayload_length = ntoh24(login_req->dlength);\n\ttmpbuf = kmemdup_nul(login->req_buf, payload_length, GFP_KERNEL);\n\nand for the ones after it in iscsi_decode_text_input(), reached from\niscsi_target_do_login().\n\nlogin->req_buf is a fixed MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS (8192) byte allocation, so\nan initiator that declares more than it sends reads off the end of it,\nbefore authentication and with the length under its control:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n  Read of size 8193 at addr ffff8881056a8000 by task iscsi_np/167\n   __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n   kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n   iscsi_target_locate_portal+0x48d/0x1180\n   iscsi_target_login_thread+0x19a9/0x3350\n  Allocated by task 167:\n   __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370\n   iscsi_target_login_thread+0x971/0x3350\n  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192\n  allocated 8192-byte region\n\nFalsifying the second login PDU instead reaches the other reader, on the\nsame buffer:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n  Read of size 8193 at addr ffff888104d10000 by task kworker/1:1/50\n  Workqueue: isert_login_wq iscsi_target_do_login_rx\n   __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n   kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n   iscsi_decode_text_input+0xc6/0x11c0\n   iscsi_target_do_login+0x261/0x1470\n   iscsi_target_do_login_rx+0x51d/0x7d0\n\niscsit over TCP is not exposed: iscsit_get_login_rx() validates the\ndeclared length with iscsi_target_check_login_request() and then reads\nexactly that many bytes off the socket, so the declared length governs\nhow much arrives rather than how much is copied out of an already-filled\nbuffer.  isert does not call iscsi_target_check_login_request() at all.\n\nReject a login PDU whose declared DataSegmentLength exceeds what was\nreceived, in both paths that reach isert_rx_login_req():\nisert_get_login_rx() for the first login PDU and isert_login_recv_done()\nfor the ones after it.  dlength <= login_req_len is allowed because the\nreceived count can include up to three bytes of iSCSI padding.\n\nOnce the check is in place the copy out can no longer exceed the copy in:\nthe posted login SGE is ISER_RX_PAYLOAD_SIZE, so login_req_len cannot\nexceed MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS and the min() in isert_rx_login_req() is\nlogin_req_len.\n\nLike the existing short-PDU check added by 29e7b925ae6d, the reject in\nisert_login_recv_done() returns without completing login_req_comp, so a\nmalformed subsequent PDU leaves the login to be torn down by the login\ntimer rather than failing immediately.  The first-PDU path returns an\nerror and fails straight away.\n\nReproduced on 7.2.0-rc4 with soft-RoCE (rdma_rxe) under KASAN, using an\ninitiator that sends the real key=value payload while declaring 8193 in\nthe BHS, on the first login PDU and on the second in separate runs.  The\nreported read size tracks the declared value exactly; 16384 and 61440\nbehave the same.  Unpatched 3 of 3 runs report on each of the two paths,\npatched 0 of 3 on both, run alternately in a single session, and a normal\nlogin still completes on the patched build.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":9.1},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d9c0586af703890afe1bd0cfe641e3a3af1c32d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/228aaa620fe6a7bc8b5b21dd348b4836b1760c61","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2488b5b4827e5415768afc8daf097e8eb83c98df","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44fe800ec13386c88bd5b32bcd1deaa1e17535d5","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48812c8103071d550d9ab4a3431be5bdc52255bc"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:55:23.253742848+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-90413","score":0.00841,"percentile":0.57614,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). 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