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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63887"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:00.114Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:17:54.668Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63887"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63887.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63887"
title: "scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf\n\niscsi_encode_text_output() concatenates \"key=value\\0\" records into\nlogin-\u003ersp_buf, an 8192-byte kzalloc(MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) buffer\nallocated in iscsit_alloc_login_setup_buffer(). The three sprintf() call\nsites in this function (lines 1398, 1411, 1424 in v7.1-rc2) never check\nthe remaining buffer capacity:\n\n\t*length += sprintf(output_buf, \"%s=%s\", er-\u003ekey, er-\u003evalue);\n\t*length += 1;\n\toutput_buf = textbuf + *length;\n\nThe 8192-byte ceiling at iscsi_target_check_login_request() bounds the\n*input* Login PDU payload, but a single PDU can carry up to 2048 minimal\nfour-byte \"a=b\\0\" pairs, each unknown key expanding to a 16-byte\n\"a=NotUnderstood\\0\" output record via iscsi_add_notunderstood_response().\n2048 * 16 = 32 KiB of output into an 8 KiB buffer, producing a ~24 KiB\nheap overrun in the kmalloc-8k slab.\n\nThe fix introduces a static iscsi_encode_text_record() helper that uses\nsnprintf() with a per-call bounds check against the remaining buffer,\nand threads a u32 textbuf_size parameter through\niscsi_encode_text_output(). Both call sites in\niscsi_target_handle_csg_zero() (PHASE_SECURITY) and\niscsi_target_handle_csg_one() (PHASE_OPERATIONAL) pass\nMAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS. On overflow the encoder logs the condition, calls\niscsi_release_extra_responses() to drop queued records, and returns -1;\nboth caller sites now emit ISCSI_STATUS_CLS_INITIATOR_ERR /\nISCSI_LOGIN_STATUS_INIT_ERR via iscsit_tx_login_rsp() before returning,\nso the initiator sees an explicit failed-login response rather than a\nsilent connection drop. (Prior to this patch only the PHASE_OPERATIONAL\ncaller did that; the PHASE_SECURITY caller is converted to the same\nshape.)"
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