NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-debug-kvm (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-15101685
- published27 Jan 2026
- disclosed25 Jan 2026
Introduced: 25 Jan 2026
CVE-2026-22998 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by Centos.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-tcp: fix NULL pointer dereferences in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec
Commit efa56305908b ("nvmet-tcp: Fix a kernel panic when host sends an invalid H2C PDU length") added ttag bounds checking and data_offset validation in nvmet_tcp_handle_h2c_data_pdu(), but it did not validate whether the command's data structures (cmd->req.sg and cmd->iov) have been properly initialized before processing H2C_DATA PDUs.
The nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec() function dereferences these pointers without NULL checks. This can be triggered by sending H2C_DATA PDU immediately after the ICREQ/ICRESP handshake, before sending a CONNECT command or NVMe write command.
Attack vectors that trigger NULL pointer dereferences:
- H2C_DATA PDU sent before CONNECT → both pointers NULL
- H2C_DATA PDU for READ command → cmd->req.sg allocated, cmd->iov NULL
- H2C_DATA PDU for uninitialized command slot → both pointers NULL
The fix validates both cmd->req.sg and cmd->iov before calling nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec(). Both checks are required because:
- Uninitialized commands: both NULL
- READ commands: cmd->req.sg allocated, cmd->iov NULL
- WRITE commands: both allocated
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2432671
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-22998
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2721
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b63acd78f577b332d976aa06b56e70d054cbba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/374b095e265fa27465f34780e0eb162ff1bef913
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3def5243150716be86599c2a1767c29c68838b6d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76abc83a9d25593c2b7613c549413079c14a4686
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d75570002929d20e40110d6b03e46202c9d1bc7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baabe43a0edefac8cd7b981ff87f967f6034dafe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdecd3b6aac10d5a18d0dc500fe57f8648b66cd4