CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68293
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c057d23465c7a5817a7284c896d19d54c0b616 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5be4eebd5a3a198dab0adcd550e1cadca79bdfed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b39a8c875ca744b7de69af0a8ef8874cffccf1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88b2a16ddac3357e3f1d528e758b51e2c945d546 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8a4acc19dcdc83e1303c29d9535e5c99415a2e3 git.kernel.org