CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63890
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: fcoe: Reject FIP descriptors with zero fip_dlen in CVL walker
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c::fcoe_ctlr_recv_clr_vlink() advanced the
descriptor cursor by an attacker-supplied fip_dlen without ever
requiring dlen >= sizeof(struct fip_desc) in the default branch. The
named descriptor cases (FIP_DT_MAC, FIP_DT_NAME, FIP_DT_VN_ID) checked
their per-type minimum lengths, but a FIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL descriptor
(fip_dtype >= 128, which the standard requires receivers to silently
ignore) skipped that check entirely.
An unauthenticated L2 peer on the FCoE control VLAN could hang
fcoe_ctlr_recv_work on an fcoe, qedf, or bnx2fc initiator indefinitely
by emitting one FIP CVL frame whose single descriptor had fip_dtype ==
FIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL and fip_dlen == 0: the cursor advanced zero bytes
per iteration and the loop condition rlen >= sizeof(*desc) stayed true
forever, blocking every subsequent FIP frame on that controller.
Tighten the outer dlen guard to also reject dlen < sizeof(struct
fip_desc), so a malformed descriptor whose length cannot even cover the
descriptor header is rejected before the switch. This is the same
lower-bound the named cases already apply and is the minimum scope that
closes the loop.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e3c6e5a8fc15a74dfb1e0c1df9f1da73600a81a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14dd80a20a72ce334adcc2d67402360527065948 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549859a1131052b07dff11a448e9f3221a40f260 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80a0cd307205236ca28aa49bc553f58edcb9bf3a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9eed1bd59937e6828b00d2f2dfef631d964f3636 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d179949d2175d2857d1c3a275a22bea58bcc5d36 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d537d29d51c8b808469e5adacf3e5a0092700738 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fda976f7390bb5d1e9b84ef11ebb17323038e0c6 git.kernel.org