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GHSA-CQCH-VJQ7-8XRC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 15:30 – Updated: 2026-07-20 15:31

Details

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.

Severity

8.4 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-63860 (GCVE-0-2026-63860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 14:04 – Updated: 2026-10-19 20:07

Title

RDMA/core: Prefer NLA_NUL_STRING

Summary

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.

Severity

8.4 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-16 15:32 UTC

CWE

CWE-170 - Improper Null Termination

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6856 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd07d3b8ee7a39b3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87111356d58d86edb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abda65bdd13084c77…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/137b5918931d4d05a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5877c043398d5fa0e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c7b39dde2e61df8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c26a0052cceed4c4d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ed3d14fc45d3da60…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < fcd07d3b8ee7a39b344d73aed69c1a68cd9eacdf (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < 87111356d58d86edb221ba144d261ed83a5b8bbe (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < abda65bdd13084c771842adaac1f652d0660dd82 (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < 137b5918931d4d05aa8ea8d3adf67f7224eef63c (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < 5877c043398d5fa0e93919a3d837e5cd7a98a961 (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < f2c7b39dde2e61df8157066969cc2a408cd3dcd9 (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < c26a0052cceed4c4d380ee5808b699f937fb58d8 (git) Affected: 30dc5e63d6a5ad24894b5512d10b228d73645a44 , < 6ed3d14fc45d3da6025e7fe4a6a09066856698e2 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.258 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.141 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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