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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: fcoe: Reject FIP descriptors with zero fip_dlen in CVL walker… (CVE-2026-63890)

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Medium
Published: 07/20/2026 (07/20/2026, 00:00:00 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Product: linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: fcoe: Reject FIP descriptors with zero fip_dlen in CVL walker drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c::fcoe_ctlr_recv_clr_vlink() advanced the descriptor cursor by an attacker-supplied fip_dlen without ever requiring dlen >= sizeof(struct fip_desc) in the default branch. The named descriptor cases (FIP_DT_MAC, FIP_DT_NAME, FIP_DT_VN_ID) checked their per-type minimum lengths, but a FIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL descriptor (fip_dtype >= 128, which the standard requires receivers to silently ignore) skipped that check entirely. An unauthenticated L2 peer on the FCoE control VLAN could hang fcoe_ctlr_recv_work on an fcoe, qedf, or bnx2fc initiator indefinitely by emitting one FIP CVL frame whose single descriptor had fip_dtype == FIP_DT_NON_CRITICAL and fip_dlen == 0: the cursor advanced zero bytes per iteration and the loop condition rlen >= sizeof(*desc) stayed true forever, blocking every subsequent FIP frame on that controller. Tighten the outer dlen guard to also reject dlen < sizeof(struct fip_desc), so a malformed descriptor whose length cannot even cover the descriptor header is rejected before the switch. This is the same lower-bound the named cases already apply and is the minimum scope that closes the loop.

Affected software

Affected versions
<7.0.0-28.28~24.04.1<7.0.0-1016.16~24.04.1<7.0.0-28.28.1~24.04.3<7.0.0-28.28<7.0.0-1009.9

Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Osv Id
GHSA-9x5h-mxx6-q576
Osv Schema Version
1.4.0
Aliases
["CVE-2026-63890"]
Ecosystems
[]
Database Specific Severity
null
Cvss Version
null

Threat ID: 6a5d27ab2a4a8d598912ff93

Added to database: 07/19/2026, 19:38:19 UTC

Last enriched: 07/19/2026, 20:12:05 UTC

Last updated: 08/30/2026, 10:52:10 UTC

Views: 58

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