CVE-2026-53371

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/ionic: bound node_desc sysfs read with %.64s node_desc[64] in struct ib_device is not guaranteed to be NUL- terminated. The core IB sysfs handler uses "%.64s" for exactly this reason (drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c:1307), since node_desc_store() performs a raw memcpy of up to IB_DEVICE_NODE_DESC_MAX bytes with no NUL termination: memcpy(desc.node_desc, buf, min_t(int, count, IB_DEVICE_NODE_DESC_MAX)); If exactly 64 bytes are written via the node_desc sysfs file, the array contains no NUL byte. The ionic hca_type_show() handler uses unbounded "%s" and will read past the end of node_desc into adjacent fields of struct ib_device until it encounters a NUL. ionic supports IB_DEVICE_MODIFY_NODE_DESC, so this is triggerable by userspace. Match the core handler and bound the format specifier.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61df14f306f153bffa2f3c74a94ff5a85c99fa39	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654a27f25530d052eeedf086e6c3e2d585c203bd	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3e9372203afde2c62576356bb9a17890bc7fd6c	Patch

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-07-19 09:17

Updated : 2026-07-29 16:55

NVD link : CVE-2026-53371

Mitre link : CVE-2026-53371

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-53371

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Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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