Bug 2516497 (CVE-2026-72217) - CVE-2026-72217 kernel: SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before writing
Summary: CVE-2026-72217 kernel: SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before wr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72217
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 16:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:15:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

SUNRPC: Bound-check xdr_buf_to_bvec() stores before writing

xdr_buf_to_bvec() writes a bio_vec into the caller's array before
testing whether that slot is in range, and the head branch performs
the store with no check at all. When the caller's budget is exactly
used up, the next store lands one element past the end of the array.
The overflow label returns count - 1, which masks the surplus store
but cannot undo it.

rq_bvec, the array passed by nfsd_vfs_write(), is allocated to
exactly rq_maxpages entries with no slack. The OOB store can land in
adjacent slab memory; the bv_len and bv_offset fields written there
are derived from client-supplied RPC payload sizes.

Move the in-range check ahead of the store in the head, page-loop,
and tail branches. With the check at the top of each sequence, count
is incremented only after a successful store, so the overflow label
can return count directly.


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