UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-98545
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
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1603abb0c50420e97cf4a1feddbd5e183c5fdf86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80320b278fea07ffcda3f57b67b61658e0a4e1ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80fbb0bc4d11683c88f2f9d3997ea02fcada5408
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c698f6deabf680f8f4a1727ef2dc80fe78815fbf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9a7147b93624660626cd7c3b1143715699e1f5c
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-10-18 via NVD.
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