# 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-2026-90221"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:32.070Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:57.703Z"
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-2026-90221"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90221.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90221"
title: "nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in CORE_INIT_RSP parsing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in CORE_INIT_RSP parsing\n\nnci_core_init_rsp_packet_v1() and nci_core_init_rsp_packet_v2() parse\nthe CORE_INIT_RSP packet without validating that the skb contains\nenough data. A malformed response (e.g. injected via virtual_ncidev)\ncan declare a large num_supported_rf_interfaces while providing\ninsufficient data, causing reads of uninitialized slab memory. This\nis later used in nci_init_complete_req(), triggering a KMSAN\nuninit-value warning.\n\nAdd skb length checks before accessing packet fields:\n- Validate the skb has at least 1 byte for the status field.\n- Validate the skb can hold the fixed-size header before parsing.\n- In v2, bounds-check each variable-length rf_interface entry and its\n  extension parameters within the parsing loop.\n- In v1, verify the skb is large enough for both the variable-length\n  rf_interfaces array and the trailing rsp_2 structure."
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