High [CVE-2026-63887] Bound iscsi_encode_text_output appends to rsp_buf
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63887 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf iscsi_encode_text_output() concatenates "key=value\0" records into login->rsp_buf, an 8192-byte kzalloc(MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) buffer allocated in iscsit_alloc_login_setup_buffer().
The three sprintf() call sites in this function (lines 1398, 1411, 1424 in v7.1-rc2) never check the remaining buffer capacity: *length += sprintf(output_buf, "%s=%s", er->key, er->value); *length += 1; output_buf = textbuf + *length; The 8192-byte ceiling at iscsi_target_check_login_request() bounds the *input* Login PDU payload, but a single PDU can carry up to 2048 minimal four-byte "a=b\0" pairs, each unknown key expanding to a 16-byte "a=NotUnderstood\0" output record via iscsi_add_notunderstood_response().
2048 * 16 = 32 KiB of output into an 8 KiB buffer, producing a ~24 KiB heap overrun in the kmalloc-8k slab. The fix introduces a static iscsi_encode_text_record() helper that uses snprintf() with a per-call bounds check against the remaining buffer, and threads a u32 textbuf_size parameter through iscsi_encode_text_output().
Both call sites in iscsi_target_handle_csg_zero() (PHASE_SECURITY) and iscsi_target_handle_csg_one() (PHASE_OPERATIONAL) pass MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 6 days ago·verify at source
- kernel-0:6.12.0-211.47.1.el10_2
- kernel-0:6.12.0-55.105.1.el10_0
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.157.1.rt7.498.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.157.1.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.208.1.el8_4
- kernel-0:4.18.0-477.168.1.el8_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-284.193.1.el9_2
- kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.193.1.rt14.478.el9_2
- kernel-0:5.14.0-427.150.1.el9_4
- kernel-0:5.14.0-570.141.1.el9_6
- RHSA-2026:54343
- RHSA-2026:69089
- RHSA-2026:57254
- RHSA-2026:57253
- RHSA-2026:69874
- RHSA-2026:69837
- RHSA-2026:63129
- RHSA-2026:70482
- RHSA-2026:70483
- RHSA-2026:68100
- RHSA-2026:67720
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 6 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-0:6.12.0-211.47.1.el10_2, kernel-0:6.12.0-55.105.1.el10_0, kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.157.1.rt7.498.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.157.1.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-305.208.1.el8_4, kernel-0:4.18.0-477.168.1.el8_8. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 6 days ago·verify at source
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