# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80791"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:13:03.204Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:43:44.536Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80791"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80791.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80791"
title: "nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer\n\nnvmet_execute_auth_receive() allocates the response buffer with kmalloc()\nsized by the host-supplied AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length, but the\nDH-HMAC-CHAP builders write only a fixed-size message into it. The full\nallocation length is then copied to the wire by nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), so a\nremote initiator receives the bytes past the built message -- up to nearly\na page of uninitialized slab -- during the pre-authentication handshake.\n\nAllocate the buffer with kzalloc() so the unwritten tail is zeroed before\nit is sent; conforming responses are unaffected."
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