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CVE-2026-53371

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/ionic: bound node_desc sysfs read with %.64s node_desc[64] in struct ib_device is not guaranteed to be NUL- terminated. The core IB sysfs handler uses "%.64s" for exactly this reason (drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c:1307), since node_desc_store() performs a raw memcpy of up to IB_DEVICE_NODE_DESC_MAX bytes with no NUL termination: memcpy(desc.node_desc, buf, min_t(int, count, IB_DEVICE_NODE_DESC_MAX)); If exactly 64 bytes are written via the node_desc sysfs file, the array contains no NUL byte. The ionic hca_type_show() handler uses unbounded "%s" and will read past the end of node_desc into adjacent fields of struct ib_device until it encounters a NUL. ionic supports IB_DEVICE_MODIFY_NODE_DESC, so this is triggerable by userspace. Match the core handler and bound the format specifier.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53371
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-07-19 09:10 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-19 09:10 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 < 61df14f306f153bffa2f3c74a94ff5a85c99fa39, 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 < a3e9372203afde2c62576356bb9a17890bc7fd6c, 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 < 654a27f25530d052eeedf086e6c3e2d585c203bd
Linux Linux 6.18, 0 < 6.18, 6.18.30 ≤ 6.18.*, 7.0.7 ≤ 7.0.* …
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