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GHSA-9F96-M8PP-Q99R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-17 18:32 – Updated: 2026-09-18 18:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ublk: check import_ubuf() return value

import_ubuf() can fail if the address range (provided by the userspace ublk server) is outside the allowed user address space. Return that 0 bytes were copied if import_ubuf() fails rather than passing an uninitialized struct iov_iter to ublk_copy_user_pages().

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-90324 (GCVE-0-2026-90324)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:08 – Updated: 2026-09-18 17:54

Title

ublk: check import_ubuf() return value

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ublk: check import_ubuf() return value import_ubuf() can fail if the address range (provided by the userspace ublk server) is outside the allowed user address space. Return that 0 bytes were copied if import_ubuf() fails rather than passing an uninitialized struct iov_iter to ublk_copy_user_pages().

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0121c84adb6a4cd6f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ac6019cb78e98c96…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3831568792af75b65…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 981f95a571e3ca20a496c0b77dbf6b06039c6648 , < 0121c84adb6a4cd6f7560b5895bd88f9899bbc1f (git) Affected: 981f95a571e3ca20a496c0b77dbf6b06039c6648 , < 5ac6019cb78e98c9608fda72726b36ddf8474dd7 (git) Affected: 981f95a571e3ca20a496c0b77dbf6b06039c6648 , < 3831568792af75b6523fa93bb91560e29189cf55 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.5 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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