CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23070
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Octeontx2-af: Add proper checks for fwdata
firmware populates MAC address, link modes (supported, advertised)
and EEPROM data in shared firmware structure which kernel access
via MAC block(CGX/RPM).
Accessing fwdata, on boards booted with out MAC block leading to
kernel panics.
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] SMP
[ 10.460721] Modules linked in:
[ 10.463779] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 174 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc5-00154-g76ec646abdf7-dirty #3 PREEMPT
[ 10.474045] Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN98XX board (DT)
[ 10.479793] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
[ 10.484159] pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 10.491124] pc : rvu_sdp_init+0x18/0x114
[ 10.495051] lr : rvu_probe+0xe58/0x1d18
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.18.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.19