Answer in brief
CVE-2026-72130 records a Critical severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 9.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 <80bf7b7f676e3987bbe06af3c359bd56ac91a5a9 || >=db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 <2eaa3ad450141cfcf187bb43cb8335eb336b5f87 || >=db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 <bc111698b46e43eddd8664cceaa621cd559e99a0 || >=db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 <779575bc35c687697ba69e904f2cd22e60112534 | 80bf7b7f676e3987bbe06af3c359bd56ac91a5a9, 2eaa3ad450141cfcf187bb43cb8335eb336b5f87, bc111698b46e43eddd8664cceaa621cd559e99a0, 779575bc35c687697ba69e904f2cd22e60112534 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.0 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Aug 15, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 15, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers nvmet_execute_auth_receive() trusts the AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length after checking only that it is nonzero and matches the transfer length. In the SUCCESS1 and FAILURE1/default states, that lets a remote NVMe-oF initiator reach the fixed-size DH-HMAC-CHAP response builders with a kmalloc() buffer shorter than the response, so nvmet_auth_success1() and nvmet_auth_failure1() write past the allocation; both only WARN_ON the short length and then format the message anyway. Impact: A remote NVMe-oF initiator with access to an auth-enabled target can trigger a 16-byte heap out-of-bounds write via a one-byte AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length. Compute the minimum response length for the current DH-HMAC-CHAP step in nvmet_auth_receive_data_len() and report a zero data length when the host-supplied allocation length is shorter, so the existing zero-length check in nvmet_execute_auth_receive() rejects the command before any builder runs. The SUCCESS1 minimum is sizeof(struct nvmf_auth_dhchap_success1_data) plus the HMAC hash length, because the response hash is written into the rval[] flexible-array tail, so the minimum is state dependent rather than a flat sizeof. CHALLENGE keeps its existing variable-length guard in nvmet_auth_challenge(). This is reachable only when in-band DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication is configured on the target.
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