CVE-2026-68293

net/mlx5: Fix MCIA register buffer overflow on 32 dword reads

HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix MCIA register buffer overflow on 32 dword reads The MCIA register can return up to 32 dwords (128 bytes) when the device advertises the mcia_32dwords capability, but struct mlx5_ifc_mcia_reg_bits only defines dword_0..11, leaving room for just 12 dwords (48 bytes) of data. mlx5_query_mcia() clamps the read size to mlx5_mcia_max_bytes() and then memcpy()s that many bytes out of the register, potentially reading past the end of the 'out' buffer. On kernels built with FORTIFY_SOURCE this is caught as a buffer overflow while reading the module EEPROM via ethtool: detected buffer overflow in memcpy kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1048! RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0x13/0x20 Call Trace: mlx5_query_mcia.isra.0+0x200/0x210 [mlx5_core] mlx5_query_module_eeprom_by_page+0x4a/0xa0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_get_module_eeprom_by_page+0xbb/0x120 [mlx5_core] eeprom_prepare_data+0xf3/0x170 ethnl_default_doit+0xf1/0x3b0 Extend the mcia_reg layout to 32 dwords.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c < c8a4acc19dcdc83e1303c29d9535e5c99415a2e3 ; affected 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c < 5be4eebd5a3a198dab0adcd550e1cadca79bdfed ; affected 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c < 87b39a8c875ca744b7de69af0a8ef8874cffccf1 ; affected 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c < 88b2a16ddac3357e3f1d528e758b51e2c945d546 ; affected 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c < 11c057d23465c7a5817a7284c896d19d54c0b616
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.18 ; unaffected 0 < 5.18 ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.101 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.42 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.6 ≤ 7.1.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD