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Advisory severityHigh8.8Red Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-72130] reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-72130 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers nvmet_execute_auth_receive() trusts the AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length after checking only that it is nonzero and matches the transfer length.

In the SUCCESS1 and FAILURE1/default states, that lets a remote NVMe-oF initiator reach the fixed-size DH-HMAC-CHAP response builders with a kmalloc() buffer shorter than the response, so nvmet_auth_success1() and nvmet_auth_failure1() write past the allocation; both only WARN_ON the short length and then format the message anyway.

Impact: A remote NVMe-oF initiator with access to an auth-enabled target can trigger a 16-byte heap out-of-bounds write via a one-byte AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length.

Compute the minimum response length for the current DH-HMAC-CHAP step in nvmet_auth_receive_data_len() and report a zero data length when the host-supplied allocation length is shorter, so the existing zero-length check in nvmet_execute_auth_receive() rejects the command before any builder runs.

The SUCCESS1 minimum is sizeof(struct nvmf_auth_dhchap_success1_data) plus the HMAC hash length, because the response hash is written into the rval[] flexible-array tail, so the minimum is state dependent rather than a flat sizeof. CHALLENGE keeps its existing variable-length guard in nvmet_auth_challenge().

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 23 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • kernel-0:6.12.0-211.50.1.el10_2
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8
  • RHSA-2026:61887
  • RHSA-2026:63129

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 23 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • To mitigate this issue, ensure that in-band DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication is not configured on NVMe-oF targets if it is not strictly required. This vulnerability is only exploitable when this specific authentication mechanism is enabled. Consult NVMe-oF documentation for your specific setup to disable DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication if it is currently enabled and not required.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 23 days ago·verify at source

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