Bug 2461486 (CVE-2026-31660) - CVE-2026-31660 kernel: nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes
Summary: CVE-2026-31660 kernel: nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31660
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-24 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-24 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:04:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes

pn532_receive_buf() reports the number of accepted bytes to the serdev
core. The current code consumes bytes into recv_skb and may already hand
a complete frame to pn533_recv_frame() before allocating a fresh receive
buffer.

If that alloc_skb() fails, the callback returns 0 even though it has
already consumed bytes, and it leaves recv_skb as NULL for the next
receive callback. That breaks the receive_buf() accounting contract and
can also lead to a NULL dereference on the next skb_put_u8().

Allocate the receive skb lazily before consuming the next byte instead.
If allocation fails, return the number of bytes already accepted.


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