CVE-2026-89483EPSS p45.3%
CVE-2026-89483CVE-2026-89483
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme: zero the discard fallback page
nvme_setup_discard() always maps sizeof(struct nvme_dsm_range) *
NVME_DSM_MAX_RANGES = 4096 bytes as the DSM payload however many ranges
the command declares, because some devices ignore the 'Number of Ranges'
field - the Fixes: commit records two that read past the declared ranges.
A single-range discard fills only the first 16 bytes.
Normally the buffer comes from kzalloc() and the other 4080 bytes are
zero. When that allocation fails the code falls back to the
per-controller ctrl->discard_page, which nvme_init_ctrl() obtains with
alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL) and nothing ever zeroes, so those 4080 bytes are
whatever the page last held and are handed to the controller. Reaching
it requires the kzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN) to fail, that is
memory pressure; it is not remotely triggerable. Failing the allocation
under KMSAN reproduces it, with the leaked tail full of vmemmap str
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.57% probability of exploitation · percentile 45.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-14 |