CVE-2026-89971EPSS p48.4%
CVE-2026-89971CVE-2026-89971
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed
nvme_query_zone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive
NVMe status code, but nvme_update_ns_info_block() only tests for the
negative case:
ret = nvme_query_zone_info(ns, lbaf, &zi);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
If the device fails the Identify Namespace (I/O Command Set specific)
command, or the Identify Controller command issued by
nvme_set_max_append(), the positive status falls through and setup
continues with the zero-initialized zone info. nvme_update_zone_info()
then marks the queue zoned with chunk_sectors and ns->head->zsze set to
zero.
blk_validate_zoned_limits() does not check chunk_sectors, so the limits
commit succeeds. blk_revalidate_disk_zones() does reject the zero zone
size, but by then the limits are live and nothing rolls them back, so
I/O keeps being submitted to a zoned queue with a zero zone size and
disk_zone_no()
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.63% probability of exploitation · percentile 48.4% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-03 |