# 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-2026-89481"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:36.589Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:47:30.916Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89481"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89481.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89481"
title: "nvme-tcp: fix host memory disclosure on R2T for a read command"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme-tcp: fix host memory disclosure on R2T for a read command\n\nnvme_tcp_handle_r2t() does not check the direction of the request the\nR2T refers to. A malicious controller can send an R2T for a READ and\nthe host will answer it: nvme_tcp_setup_h2c_data_pdu() builds the\nH2CData header and nvme_tcp_try_send_data() sends the request's data\nbuffer. That buffer is the READ destination, so its contents go to the\ncontroller.\n\nThe command then completes normally and nothing is logged.\n\nAgainst a test controller that answers every READ with an R2T, a 4096\nbyte buffered read returned all 4096 bytes, split over two R2Ts. The\npages contained stale kernel data, including an array of struct page\npointers.\n\nReject an R2T for a request that is not a write."
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