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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89973" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:52.409Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:55:48.143Z" 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-2026-89973" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89973.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89973" title: "nvme-tcp: check the data direction of a C2HData PDU" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme-tcp: check the data direction of a C2HData PDU\n\nnvme_tcp_handle_c2h_data() finds the request by command id and checks\nthat it has a payload, but it does not check that the command asked for\ndata to be read. A controller that answers a write command with C2HData\ntherefore reaches nvme_tcp_recv_data(), where _copy_to_iter() hits\nWARN_ON_ONCE(i-\u003edata_source) and returns 0. The receive path turns that\ninto -EFAULT and resets the controller.\n\nNo data is copied, so this is not memory corruption. What a controller\ngets is a kernel warning it can raise at will, which is fatal on a host\nbooted with panic_on_warn.\n\nThe send path already knows the direction - it consults rq_data_dir()\nwhen it builds a command - and nvme_tcp_handle_r2t() checks the length\nand the offset of the request it names. The C2HData path does not check\nthe direction at all.\n\nReject a C2HData PDU whose command is not a read. Rejecting it fails\nthe command and resets the controller, as the neighbouring check in this\nfunction does; what goes away is the warning.\n\n [ 6.885580] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n [ 6.886457] WARNING: lib/iov_iter.c:193 at _copy_to_iter+0x289/0x1330, CPU#0: kworker/0:1H/71\n [ 6.888137] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 71 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-NVMETCP-gf5098b6bae76 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n [ 6.891165] Workqueue: nvme_tcp_wq nvme_tcp_io_work\n [ 6.891875] RIP: 0010:_copy_to_iter+0x289/0x1330\n [ 6.903739] Call Trace:\n [ 6.904085] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 6.909254] __skb_datagram_iter+0x433/0x820\n [ 6.911026] skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x37/0x120\n [ 6.911622] nvme_tcp_recv_skb+0xa07/0x4320\n [ 6.913378] __tcp_read_sock+0x1ab/0x810\n [ 6.915788] nvme_tcp_try_recv+0x152/0x1e0\n [ 6.918222] nvme_tcp_io_work+0x1e4/0x6c0\n [ 6.926906] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [ 6.927226] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n [ 6.927878] nvme nvme0: queue 1 failed to copy request 0x71 data\n [ 6.928709] nvme nvme0: receive failed: -14" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df74950ba6008655d4a977d17df7faf4b6e52b74"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"980d990f3c0560d7dfbfbf14699651fdf02f26ee"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b115d932f6e769ac80783fb18edd21b0aed256e"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0673a2affe45ca76b60de31a83c67b1e60f81bde"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80d56202fbdff8906be6954b2776e5c14a4026f2"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4af7999a998787d5eb6facb5a333e04a4f1d2d9"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0c389b8a495bda1eb719d2503853c924b7a8355"},{"version":"3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f83af377c148f6ad94b41c0e8313f12adf45e1c1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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