CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64121
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-13
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues
ifb_dev_init() allocates dp->tx_private to dev->num_tx_queues
entries via kzalloc_objs(*txp, dev->num_tx_queues). Both IFB
per-queue RX and TX stats live in those entries: ifb_xmit() updates
txp->rx_stats using the skb queue mapping, ifb_ri_tasklet() updates
txp->tx_stats, and ifb_stats64() aggregates both over
dev->num_tx_queues.
The ethtool stats callbacks instead size and walk the per-queue
stats with dev->real_num_rx_queues and dev->real_num_tx_queues. With
an asymmetric device where the RX queue count exceeds the TX queue
count, for example:
ip link add name ifb10 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 8 type ifb
ethtool -S ifb10
ifb_get_ethtool_stats() indexes past the tx_private allocation and
copies adjacent slab data through ETHTOOL_GSTATS.
Use dev->num_tx_queues consistently for the stats strings, the
stats count, and the stats data walks. This reports one RX stats
group and one TX stats group for each backing ifb_q_private entry,
which is the queue set IFB can actually populate.
Reproduced under UML+KASAN at v7.1-rc2:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000062dbd228 by task ethtool/36
ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae
ifb_get_ethtool_stats+0xc0/0x129
__dev_ethtool+0x1ca5/0x363c
dev_ethtool+0x123/0x1b3
dev_ioctl+0x56c/0x744
sock_do_ioctl+0x15f/0x1b2
sock_ioctl+0x4d5/0x50a
sys_ioctl+0xd8b/0xde9
With the patch applied, the same UML+KASAN repro is silent and
ethtool -S ifb10 reports only the stats backed by the single
allocated tx_private entry.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16bd798cb6d8337d7c3eea1adc412f31b5181d5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2638e1773904d7aa8f24c6e7fda2ed7d69df6fa4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301a554e458e2f5ec47f2c336a7cb03b877f9fd6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db89c99566fc4728cc92e941d8e1975711e24b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6afdb8113cb007f9332f59a9b7fd45731b8a9de5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5a76b4a683043c6eff2a060bcaa17f9316ad5 Patch