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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Wire-reachable from an RDMA client without auth (AV:N/PR:N), but the OOB read faults immediately, yielding a kernel crash (A:H) rather than any confidentiality or integrity impact (C:N/I:N).
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CVSS VectorVendor: Linux
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
svcrdma: Fix pcl_for_each_segment for empty chunks
When a parsed chunk list contains a chunk whose ch_segcount is zero, pcl_for_each_segment computes its inclusive upper bound as &chunk->ch_segments[ch_segcount - 1]. ch_segcount is u32, so the subtraction wraps to 0xFFFFFFFF and the bound lands far past the ch_segments flex array. The loop body then walks unrelated memory at sizeof(struct svc_rdma_segment) stride until it faults.
A zero-segcount chunk is reachable from the wire: xdr_check_write_chunk() only rejects segcount values greater than rc_maxpages, and pcl_alloc_write() links a freshly allocated chunk onto rc_write_pcl/rc_reply_pcl before its segment-fill loop runs, so a Write or Reply chunk advertising zero segments leaves ch_segcount == 0 on the list. When the transport has negotiated Send-With-Invalidate, svc_rdma_get_inv_rkey() iterates all four PCLs with pcl_for_each_segment and dereferences segment->rs_handle on each iteration, turning the underflow into an out-of-bounds read and a general protection fault.
xdr_check_write_list / xdr_check_reply_chunk pcl_alloc_write() chunk = pcl_alloc_chunk(...) /* ch_segcount = 0 */ list_add_tail(&chunk->ch_list, &pcl->cl_chunks) /* fill loop iterates zero times for wire segcount 0 */
svc_rdma_get_inv_rkey() pcl_for_each_chunk(rc_write_pcl) pcl_for_each_segment(segment, chunk) pos <= &ch_segments[0u - 1u] /* 0xFFFFFFFF */ segment->rs_handle /* OOB read -> GPF */
Fix by switching the macro to a half-open upper bound that uses ch_segcount directly. For ch_segcount == 0 the loop start equals the loop end and the body is skipped; for ch_segcount > 0 the iteration range is unchanged. All six existing call sites in net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c and net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_rw.c remain correct under the new bound, so no caller changes are needed.
AnalysisAI
Remote out-of-bounds read and general protection fault in the Linux kernel's svcrdma (RPC-over-RDMA server) code allows a connected RDMA client to crash the kernel by advertising a Write or Reply chunk with zero segments. The pcl_for_each_segment iteration macro computed an inclusive upper bound of &ch_segments[ch_segcount - 1]; with a u32 ch_segcount of 0 this underflows to 0xFFFFFFFF, walking far past the flex array until it faults when svc_rdma_get_inv_rkey() dereferences segment->rs_handle. …
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| Exploitation | Requires the target Linux host to be running as an NFS/RPC-over-RDMA server (svcrdma transport active) AND to have negotiated the Send-With-Invalidate feature on the RDMA connection, since the out-of-bounds read is only reached through svc_rdma_get_inv_rkey(). … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H, 9.1) overstates confidentiality: the described behavior is an out-of-bounds read that immediately triggers a general protection fault, i.e. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
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| Remediation | Vendor-released patch: update to Linux 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, or 7.3-rc1 or later (or your distribution's backport containing the fix commits listed at git.kernel.org, e.g. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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Within 24 hours, inventory systems running Linux kernel with RPC-over-RDMA (svcrdma) enabled by reviewing kernel configuration and active NFS-over-RDMA mounts, and apply network-level access controls to restrict RDMA connections to trusted sources only. …
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EUVD-2026-76438
GHSA-vj46-79mq-hrmq