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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90413" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:09:39.383Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:03:17.470Z" 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-2026-90413" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90413.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90413" title: "IB/isert: reject login PDUs declaring more data than was received" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/isert: reject login PDUs declaring more data than was received\n\nisert_login_recv_done() records how many bytes the HCA actually placed in\nthe login buffer, but nothing compares that against the length the login\nPDU's BHS declares. isert_rx_login_req() copies min(login_req_len,\nMAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) bytes into login-\u003ereq_buf, and the login code then\nreads the declared length back out of that buffer - for the first PDU in\niscsi_target_locate_portal(),\n\n\tpayload_length = ntoh24(login_req-\u003edlength);\n\ttmpbuf = kmemdup_nul(login-\u003ereq_buf, payload_length, GFP_KERNEL);\n\nand for the ones after it in iscsi_decode_text_input(), reached from\niscsi_target_do_login().\n\nlogin-\u003ereq_buf is a fixed MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS (8192) byte allocation, so\nan initiator that declares more than it sends reads off the end of it,\nbefore authentication and with the length under its control:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n Read of size 8193 at addr ffff8881056a8000 by task iscsi_np/167\n __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n iscsi_target_locate_portal+0x48d/0x1180\n iscsi_target_login_thread+0x19a9/0x3350\n Allocated by task 167:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370\n iscsi_target_login_thread+0x971/0x3350\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192\n allocated 8192-byte region\n\nFalsifying the second login PDU instead reaches the other reader, on the\nsame buffer:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n Read of size 8193 at addr ffff888104d10000 by task kworker/1:1/50\n Workqueue: isert_login_wq iscsi_target_do_login_rx\n __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60\n kmemdup_nul+0x43/0x80\n iscsi_decode_text_input+0xc6/0x11c0\n iscsi_target_do_login+0x261/0x1470\n iscsi_target_do_login_rx+0x51d/0x7d0\n\niscsit over TCP is not exposed: iscsit_get_login_rx() validates the\ndeclared length with iscsi_target_check_login_request() and then reads\nexactly that many bytes off the socket, so the declared length governs\nhow much arrives rather than how much is copied out of an already-filled\nbuffer. isert does not call iscsi_target_check_login_request() at all.\n\nReject a login PDU whose declared DataSegmentLength exceeds what was\nreceived, in both paths that reach isert_rx_login_req():\nisert_get_login_rx() for the first login PDU and isert_login_recv_done()\nfor the ones after it. dlength \u003c= login_req_len is allowed because the\nreceived count can include up to three bytes of iSCSI padding.\n\nOnce the check is in place the copy out can no longer exceed the copy in:\nthe posted login SGE is ISER_RX_PAYLOAD_SIZE, so login_req_len cannot\nexceed MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS and the min() in isert_rx_login_req() is\nlogin_req_len.\n\nLike the existing short-PDU check added by 29e7b925ae6d, the reject in\nisert_login_recv_done() returns without completing login_req_comp, so a\nmalformed subsequent PDU leaves the login to be torn down by the login\ntimer rather than failing immediately. The first-PDU path returns an\nerror and fails straight away.\n\nReproduced on 7.2.0-rc4 with soft-RoCE (rdma_rxe) under KASAN, using an\ninitiator that sends the real key=value payload while declaring 8193 in\nthe BHS, on the first login PDU and on the second in separate runs. The\nreported read size tracks the declared value exactly; 16384 and 61440\nbehave the same. Unpatched 3 of 3 runs report on each of the two paths,\npatched 0 of 3 on both, run alternately in a single session, and a normal\nlogin still completes on the patched build." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1f3313e7b3e396e4985fea5c709477387e0a065"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"228aaa620fe6a7bc8b5b21dd348b4836b1760c61"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d9c0586af703890afe1bd0cfe641e3a3af1c32d"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44fe800ec13386c88bd5b32bcd1deaa1e17535d5"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71ec8bbfa4a183f1e623662f9cfbcd702e433bdb"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c345d9d0b3eefc990bb90cf565325785aab06aab"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48812c8103071d550d9ab4a3431be5bdc52255bc"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2488b5b4827e5415768afc8daf097e8eb83c98df"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"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":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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