Bug 2554858 (CVE-2026-98481)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98481 kernel: nfc: port100: reject frames whose declared length exceeds the received data
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Near Field Communication (NFC) Port-100 driver. An attacker connecting a malicious USB device can provide a response frame whose declared length exceeds the actual received data size. This flaw causes an out-of-bounds memory read during frame validation, which can lead to a system crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:23:32 UTC

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

nfc: port100: reject frames whose declared length exceeds the received data

port100_recv_response() passes the URB transfer buffer to
port100_rx_frame_is_valid(), which checksums le16_to_cpu(frame->datalen)
bytes of frame->data. datalen is a 16-bit field supplied by the device
and is never checked against the number of bytes actually received
(urb->actual_length), so a device reporting a datalen larger than the
received frame makes port100_data_checksum() read out of bounds past the
transfer buffer.

Reject a response whose declared frame size does not fit the received
length before validating it.

Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis; the
missing bound is evident from source. Compile-tested.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-10-20 10:48:13 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98481.mbox