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CVE-2026-63889

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Widen FPIN pname walker counter to u32 An adjacent Fibre Channel…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Widen FPIN pname walker counter to u32 An adjacent Fibre Channel fabric actor that can deliver an FPIN ELS frame to an lpfc or qla2xxx Linux initiator can trigger a non-return in the generic FC transport. This is not a local userspace or IP network path; the attacker must be able to inject fabric traffic, for example as a compromised switch or fabric controller, or as a same-zone N_Port on a fabric that permits source spoofing. The Link-Integrity and Peer-Congestion FPIN walkers used a u8 loop counter against the 32-bit on-wire pname_count field, and did not bound pname_count by the descriptor body already validated by the TLV walker. A pname_count of 256 therefore wraps the counter and keeps the loop condition true indefinitely. Factor the shared pname_list[] walk into one helper, widen the counter to u32, and clamp pname_count against the entries that fit in the descriptor body before iterating.

CVSS
8.1
8.1 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-07-19 16:17
Modified: 2026-10-29 19:16
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 55 minutes ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-29 19:22 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥5.11 <5.15.210, ≥5.16 <6.1.176, ≥6.2 <6.6.143, ≥6.7 <6.12.93, ≥6.13 <6.18.35, ≥6.19 <7.0.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07776b7779c9426982c1ad74aad91bd531593790
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/163bd704d7515c3df6c2e03bcba93d1db79edbff
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29f126f09e34a425b376b3646c89aa7cc18b142c
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35461d23744175a78b6280293892cca357c22793
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9a39233ec1fc9f97ea1340a4d09bb7ec2be5153
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdff76dff6ec23d6fe35812fa33e5c4ce2cdb770
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee57b89e5da9fffbe0d26647e4ff0750dacb9943

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-29 19:22 UTC · record ↗

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