CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43094
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table
Commit a7075f501bd3 ("ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by
negotiating supported features") added the .negotiate_features callback
to ixgbe_mac_operations and populated it in ixgbevf_mac_ops, but forgot
to add it to ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. This leaves the function pointer NULL
on Hyper-V VMs.
During probe, ixgbevf_negotiate_api() calls ixgbevf_set_features(),
which unconditionally dereferences hw->mac.ops.negotiate_features().
On Hyper-V this results in a NULL pointer dereference:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[...]
Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine [...]
Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
RIP: 0010:0x0
[...]
Call Trace:
ixgbevf_negotiate_api+0x66/0x160 [ixgbevf]
ixgbevf_sw_init+0xe4/0x1f0 [ixgbevf]
ixgbevf_probe+0x20f/0x4a0 [ixgbevf]
local_pci_probe+0x50/0xa0
work_for_cpu_fn+0x1a/0x30
[...]
Add ixgbevf_hv_negotiate_features_vf() that returns -EOPNOTSUPP and
wire it into ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. The caller already handles -EOPNOTSUPP
gracefully.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.158 < 6.2)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.114 < 6.6.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.55 < 6.12.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.17.5 < 6.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.18.1 < 6.18.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel 6.18
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1455ff8809843e6e83f1f5b5c0bcc2224c99a3cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2270ebab53128fb73c4a70a292be09094074737f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/376d74ea03589914fbe2dedcbebf418396c04fd0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4821d563cd7f251ae728be1a6d04af82a294a5b9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4db7b61ec1d1b2b67c0881b62fc4f9583bc21484 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8a747057a17ffc79e31df1abb11d05e1669d8e5 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com