nfc: llcp: avoid userspace overflow on invalid optlen
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: llcp: avoid userspace overflow on invalid optlen nfc_llcp_getsockopt() casts optval to (u32 __user *) for put_user(), so the kernel always stores 4 bytes regardless of the caller-supplied optlen. The existing min_t(u32, len, sizeof(u32)) only clamps the length reported back to userspace; it does not constrain the store. A call with optlen < 4 therefore writes past the user buffer, violating the getsockopt(2) contract for all five supported optnames. Reject any call with optlen < sizeof(u32) up front. 'len' is int, so a plain size comparison would promote a negative optlen to size_t and slip past the check; an explicit 'len < 0' test is added first to catch negative values before the size compare.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-90226
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-phjm-5cmf-7w3f
- 2026-10-15 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-15 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42859562b7cc4313a84a584f338118edb7087066
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/598dcd53c52f8eeb9dd5382198c03960d5d40fcd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e40f2f5e7bc06c3ddef781180ce4f7994176547
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35573c6cb081af2f4a7caeea291302aca5484526
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c5abaea06292e1dddb70eac1b51589b32c77a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bf228fa02b1ed8ce622fb81fa8edc42be9aeb67
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd6f1277b62bc1df348ca21739df2bc546fcd493
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99985bfa8336fadcc69190ba2dcbd5386af3d661
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Sources
- CVE-2026-90226 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-90226 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-phjm-5cmf-7w3f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-90226 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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