CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-63860

8.4 HIGH Published 2026-07-19 Modified 2026-10-23 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-19
Last modified
2026-10-23
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-170

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: Prefer NLA_NUL_STRING These attributes are evaluated as c-string (passed to strcmp), but NLA_STRING doesn't check for the presence of a \0 terminator. Either this needs to switch to nla_strcmp() and needs to adjust printf fmt specifier to not use plain %s, or this needs to use NLA_NUL_STRING. As the code has been this way for long time, it seems to me that userspace does include the terminating nul, even tough its not enforced so far, and thus NLA_NUL_STRING use is the simpler solution.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.16 < 5.10.258) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.141) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-170 Improper Null Termination weakness

References