svcrdma: Reject Read lists that exceed the page budget
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 7 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: svcrdma: Reject Read lists that exceed the page budget Individual Read segment lengths are validated at decode time, but nothing prevents a requester from sending multiple segments whose cumulative length exceeds the rq_pages array budget. When one segment fills the page array exactly, the runtime guard in svc_rdma_build_read_segment() is bypassed because len reaches zero. A subsequent segment then accesses the NULL sentinel slot at rq_pages[rq_maxpages], resulting in a NULL pointer dereference during DMA mapping. Accumulate pages across all Read segments and reject the message at decode time when the total would overflow the page budget.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.51, 7.2.4, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-89528
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4rjj-pgm8-m2r9
- 2026-10-13 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-18 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@beb4e9801f6362436102acc4cc5304b7324f9365 +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-29 CVSS score changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@08aa4162df91880a79be744aaa9570b04d4875c4, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08aa4162df91880a79be744aaa9570b04d4875c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beb4e9801f6362436102acc4cc5304b7324f9365
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e70fdb121171c3eb0ac34eb545721828cd737717
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a3af2262cb384112ef38632de4690682be528b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/465f511f59a0fa7a80d5d1073c4b24f28ea38f58
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ca487abb3bdf581851664b5db21f364caf57682
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Sources
- CVE-2026-89528 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-89528 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4rjj-pgm8-m2r9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-89528 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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