Bug 2554942 (CVE-2026-98545) - CVE-2026-98545 kernel: ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes
Summary: CVE-2026-98545 kernel: ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descrip...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98545
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:34 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 23:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:34:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes

When an ATA PASS-THROUGH command to an ATAPI device fails, the sense
buffer holds the device's REQUEST SENSE reply, and
ata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields() trusts its additional length
byte, sb[7], when adding the ATA Status Return descriptor.  A faulty
or malicious device can use that to make the kernel read and write
past the 96-byte buffer in three ways:

- scsi_sense_desc_find() is passed sb[7] + 8 as the buffer length, so
  its clamp against sb[7] does nothing and the walk runs off the end.
- A type-9 descriptor found near the end is filled in unchecked.
- A new descriptor at sb[8 + len] needs len + 22 bytes, not len + 14,
  so len 75..82 writes up to 8 bytes past the end.

Reproduced with KASAN under qemu, with the emulated ATAPI REQUEST SENSE
reply patched:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scsi_sense_desc_find+0x1a5/0x210
  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x1a15/0x1a50

Both are gone with this patch, and a valid descriptor is still filled
in.


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