Re: [PATCH net] nfc: microread: validate CARD_FOUND event length before parsing targets

From: David Heidelberg

Date: Sun Jul 19 2026 - 10:15:57 EST


On 13/07/2026 23:59, Doruk Tan Ozturk wrote:
microread_target_discovered() parses a device-supplied MREAD_CARD_FOUND
event into a struct nfc_target, reading fixed offsets and -- for the
ISO-A and ISO-A-3 gates -- a variable-length NFCID1 straight out of the
event skb. The only length check is nfcid1_len vs sizeof(targets->nfcid1);
skb->len itself is never validated, so a short event makes every gate
case read out of bounds past the skb:

- ISO-A / ISO-A-3: fixed ATQA/SAK/LEN reads plus a memcpy of an
attacker-controlled nfcid1_len bytes from the NFCID1 offset;
- ISO-B / NFC-T1 / NFC-T3: a fixed 4- or 8-byte NFCID1 memcpy from a
fixed offset.

The copied nfcid1 is exported to user space via nfc_targets_found(), so
the over-read is an information leak (and a possible oops on an unmapped
page).

Reject events too short for the fields each gate case reads.

Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai).

Fixes: cfad1ba87150 ("NFC: Initial support for Inside Secure microread")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: 0sec
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nfc/microread/microread.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Hello Doruk,

thanks for the patch, 1. 7. I got the same one from Pengpeng, which needs to address Fixes and Cc tag [1].

Feel free to sync together for the future effort to not get duplicated (and tokens not wasted ;-) )

Adding Pengpeng to Cc.

David

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260701053709.45176-1-pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx/