CVE-2026-89965

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Reject an arena whose nfree is below num_lanes at discovery,\nbefore the per-lane arrays are allocated, enforcing that invariant."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The OOB write is reached via local BTT block I/O after discover_arenas() accepts a crafted on-media info block (nd_pmem_probe \u2192 nd_btt_probe/nvdimm_namespace_attach_btt \u2192 btt_init, then btt_submit_bio \u2192 btt_read_pg/btt_write_pg). virtio-pmem, QEMU nvdimm, CXL/ACPI pmem, and ndctl namespaces are local device paths, not a network protocol parser.\nAC:L - nfree is taken from the attacker-controlled BTT info block after only signature, checksum, and optional parent-UUID checks (a null UUID skips the UUID match). Setting nfree=1 below ND_MAX_LANES (256) and pinning I/O to CPU 1+ with sched_setaffinity makes rtt[lane]/freelist[lane] deterministically overrun the nfree-sized kmalloc buffers; no race is required.\nPR:L - Neither nd_open() nor btt_submit_bio() has a capable() check. Disk-group or PMEM-service accounts can write a valid-checksum info block to /dev/pmem* (typically 0660). nd_btt_probe() auto-detects BTT even on claim_class NONE, so boot or ordinary namespace probe attaches the arena; subsequent I/O from that unprivileged principal hits the OOB without init-namespace root.\nUI:N - Once a crafted arena is discovered, device_add_disk() partition scanning issues bios into btt_read_pg() and writes rtt[lane] with no victim mount or file open. Further exploitation is attacker-driven I/O on the BTT gendisk they already can access.\nS:U - The heap out-of-bounds access corrupts kmalloc objects in the same kernel that parsed the BTT arena. This is standard kernel memory corruption, not a KVM/Xen guest-to-host escape or IOMMU/DMA boundary bypass.\nC:H - btt_read_pg() stores RTT_VALID|postmap into arena->rtt[lane] and btt_write_pg() reads/writes arena->freelist[lane] past the nfree-sized allocations. postmap comes from the attacker-crafted map, so adjacent slab objects are overwritten with attacker-influenced values that can be turned into an arbitrary-read primitive.\nI:H - The same lane-indexed stores are kernel heap out-of-bounds writes: rtt[] (u32 with attacker-controlled postmap) and freelist[] (block/sub/seq/has_err). Combined with CPU-affinity control of the lane index (0..255), this is an OOB write exploitable for control-flow hijacking. btt_flog_write() also writes logoff+lane*LOG_GRP_SIZE on media.\nA:H - Indexing past the nfree-sized rtt and freelist kmalloc buffers oopses or panics on poisoned slab metadata or unmapped pages. 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