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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63890" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:02.195Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:02.195Z" 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-2026-63890" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63890.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63890" title: "scsi: fcoe: Reject FIP descriptors with zero fip_dlen in CVL walker" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: fcoe: Reject FIP descriptors with zero fip_dlen in CVL walker\n\ndrivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c::fcoe_ctlr_recv_clr_vlink() advanced the\ndescriptor cursor by an attacker-supplied fip_dlen without ever\nrequiring dlen \u003e= sizeof(struct fip_desc) in the default branch. The\nnamed descriptor cases (FIP_DT_MAC, FIP_DT_NAME, FIP_DT_VN_ID) checked\ntheir per-type minimum lengths, but a FIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL descriptor\n(fip_dtype \u003e= 128, which the standard requires receivers to silently\nignore) skipped that check entirely.\n\nAn unauthenticated L2 peer on the FCoE control VLAN could hang\nfcoe_ctlr_recv_work on an fcoe, qedf, or bnx2fc initiator indefinitely\nby emitting one FIP CVL frame whose single descriptor had fip_dtype ==\nFIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL and fip_dlen == 0: the cursor advanced zero bytes\nper iteration and the loop condition rlen \u003e= sizeof(*desc) stayed true\nforever, blocking every subsequent FIP frame on that controller.\n\nTighten the outer dlen guard to also reject dlen \u003c sizeof(struct\nfip_desc), so a malformed descriptor whose length cannot even cover the\ndescriptor header is rejected before the switch. This is the same\nlower-bound the named cases already apply and is the minimum scope that\ncloses the loop." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d179949d2175d2857d1c3a275a22bea58bcc5d36"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fda976f7390bb5d1e9b84ef11ebb17323038e0c6"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80a0cd307205236ca28aa49bc553f58edcb9bf3a"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e3c6e5a8fc15a74dfb1e0c1df9f1da73600a81a"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"549859a1131052b07dff11a448e9f3221a40f260"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14dd80a20a72ce334adcc2d67402360527065948"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d537d29d51c8b808469e5adacf3e5a0092700738"},{"version":"97c8389d54b9665c38105ea72a428a44b97ff2f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9eed1bd59937e6828b00d2f2dfef631d964f3636"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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