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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-89533

| EUVDEUVD-2026-76439 CRITICAL
2026-09-11 Linux GHSA-9cp7-7xj6-hh85
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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9.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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7.1 HIGH

RDMA fabric makes it adjacent (AV:A); unauthenticated client (PR:N); primary impact is memory-exhaustion DoS (A:H) with minor integrity from dropped bytes (I:L), no confidentiality.

3.1 AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
4.0 AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Sep 13, 2026 - 08:30 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Sep 13, 2026 - 07:22 NVD
9.8 (CRITICAL)
Patch available
Sep 11, 2026 - 21:18 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 11, 2026 - 19:44 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.8
CVE Published
Sep 11, 2026 - 19:44 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

svcrdma: Fix offset arithmetic in read_chunk_range

svc_rdma_read_chunk_range() walks a Read chunk's segment list to build a sub-range starting at byte offset and spanning length bytes for a Position-Zero or Call chunk. Two arithmetic defects in the per-segment loop produce wrong DMA lengths and a u32 underflow:

pcl_for_each_segment(segment, chunk) { if (offset > segment->rs_length) { offset -= segment->rs_length; continue; }

dummy.rs_handle = segment->rs_handle; dummy.rs_length = min_t(u32, length, segment->rs_length) - offset; dummy.rs_offset = segment->rs_offset + offset;

First, the skip predicate uses '>' instead of '>='. When offset equals the segment's full rs_length, the segment is fully consumed and should be skipped, but the loop falls through into the body. The resulting dummy.rs_length is min_t(u32, length, rs_length) - rs_length, which underflows to a near-UINT_MAX u32 when length is smaller than rs_length, or is zero otherwise.

Second, the length formula subtracts offset from the min_t() result rather than from segment->rs_length before the cap. For offset > 0 the segment's residual is rs_length - offset, not rs_length, so the cap must be applied to the residual. With the current bracketing, whenever length is smaller than rs_length - offset the per-segment length becomes length - offset instead of length, silently dropping offset bytes from the rebuilt chunk. Combined with the boundary case above it also enables the u32 underflow path, which propagates a huge nr_bvec into svc_rdma_build_read_segment() and a multi-MiB kmalloc_array_node() in svc_rdma_get_rw_ctxt().

Additionally, svc_rdma_read_call_chunk() can invoke this function with length == 0 when the last Read chunk ends exactly at the end of the Call chunk. With the corrected >= predicate, every segment is skipped and the function returns the initial -EINVAL, rejecting a valid request. Return success immediately when length is zero. Also break out of the loop once length is fully consumed to avoid passing zero-length segments to svc_rdma_build_read_segment().

Fix by using '>=' so a fully-consumed segment is skipped, by moving '- offset' inside min_t() so the cap is applied to the segment's residual length, by returning success for zero-length requests, and by stopping iteration when the requested range has been consumed.

AnalysisAI

Denial-of-service (and potential memory corruption) in the Linux kernel's NFS-over-RDMA server (svcrdma) arises from offset arithmetic defects in svc_rdma_read_chunk_range(). A malicious or malformed RDMA client can craft Read-chunk segment lists whose offset/length values trigger a u32 underflow, producing a near-UINT_MAX per-segment length that propagates an enormous nr_bvec into svc_rdma_build_read_segment() and a multi-MiB kmalloc_array_node() allocation, while also silently dropping bytes from rebuilt chunks. …

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Exploitation Requires the target Linux host to be running as an NFS-over-RDMA server with the svcrdma transport enabled (non-default; NFS must be exported over RDMA), and the attacker must be able to send RPC-over-RDMA Read chunks as a client over the RDMA fabric (InfiniBand/RoCE), typically an adjacent storage network rather than the open Internet. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment The published CVSS 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/C:H/I:H/A:H) substantially overstates real-world risk. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
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Remediation Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Linux kernel 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, or 7.3-rc1 (or a distribution kernel that backports the corresponding fix commits 6ee4dc7476b3 / a46b35f213c2 / 4493c96bbd00 / 4a44c140cc2f). … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Within 24 hours, identify and inventory all systems running NFS-over-RDMA services (typically enterprise storage servers and HPC clusters configured with RDMA transport). …

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