CVE-2026-90226
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: llcp: avoid userspace overflow on invalid optlen
nfc_llcp_getsockopt() casts optval to (u32 __user *) for put_user(), so the kernel always stores 4 bytes regardless of the caller-supplied optlen. The existing min_t(u32, len, sizeof(u32)) only clamps the length reported back to userspace; it does not constrain the store. A call with optlen < 4 therefore writes past the user buffer, violating the getsockopt(2) contract for all five supported optnames.
Reject any call with optlen < sizeof(u32) up front. 'len' is int, so a plain size comparison would promote a negative optlen to size_t and slip past the check; an explicit 'len < 0' test is added first to catch negative values before the size compare.
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8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/35573c6cb081af2f4a7caeea291302aca5484526nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/42859562b7cc4313a84a584f338118edb7087066nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/598dcd53c52f8eeb9dd5382198c03960d5d40fcdnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e40f2f5e7bc06c3ddef781180ce4f7994176547nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bf228fa02b1ed8ce622fb81fa8edc42be9aeb67nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/99985bfa8336fadcc69190ba2dcbd5386af3d661nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c5abaea06292e1dddb70eac1b51589b32c77a3nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd6f1277b62bc1df348ca21739df2bc546fcd493nvd
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