# 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-2026-90011"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:18.793Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:56:25.054Z"
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-2026-90011"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90011.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90011"
title: "scsi: target: iscsi: Reserve a terminator byte for the login payload"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsi: Reserve a terminator byte for the login payload\n\niscsi_target_check_login_request() rejects a login PDU whose\nDataSegmentLength exceeds MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS, but the test is '\u003e' and\nlogin-\u003ereq_buf is allocated with exactly MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS\nbytes. Since iscsit_get_login_rx() receives payload_length + padding\nbytes, where\n\n\tpadding = ((-payload_length) & 3);\n\nany payload_length from 8189 to 8192 fills the whole 8192 byte\nbuffer. The write stays in bounds, but no byte is left for a NUL\nterminator.\n\nThe buffer is subsequently consumed as a C string. In the CHAP path\nchap_check_algorithm() calls kstrdup(a_str), and extract_param() calls\nstrstr(in_buf, pattern) followed by strlen_semi(), none of which take a\nlength. convert_null_to_semi() additionally rewrites every embedded NUL\nto ';', so even a payload made of well formed NUL separated key=value\nrecords is left without a terminator. These walk past the end of the\nobject into adjacent slab memory. It is reachable by an unauthenticated\ninitiator against a portal configured for CHAP; when authentication is\nnot required iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s2() rewrites AuthMethod to None and\nthe CHAP path is never entered.\n\nAllocate one extra byte. kzalloc() zeroes it and nothing ever writes to\nit, as every writer copies to offset 0 for at most MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS\nbytes, so the buffer is always terminated."
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