CVE-2026-53371 (GCVE-0-2026-53371)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 09:10 – Updated: 2026-07-19 09:10
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Title
RDMA/ionic: bound node_desc sysfs read with %.64s
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 , < 61df14f306f153bffa2f3c74a94ff5a85c99fa39 (git)
Affected: 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 , < a3e9372203afde2c62576356bb9a17890bc7fd6c (git)
Affected: 2075bbe8ef03914aa2211035eec45d1d3a5c4ff2 , < 654a27f25530d052eeedf086e6c3e2d585c203bd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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