CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72157
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: thunderbolt: Fix frags[] overflow by bounding frame_count
tbnet_poll() assembles a multi-frame ThunderboltIP packet into one skb. The
first frame goes into the skb linear area and every further frame is added as
a page fragment.
skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags,
page, hdr_size, frame_size,
TBNET_RX_PAGE_SIZE - hdr_size);
A packet of frame_count frames therefore ends up with frame_count - 1
fragments. tbnet_check_frame() only bounds the peer supplied frame_count to
TBNET_RING_SIZE / 4 (64), which is far above MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17 by default). A
peer that sends a packet of 19 or more small frames pushes nr_frags past
MAX_SKB_FRAGS, so skb_add_rx_frag() writes past skb_shinfo()->frags[] and
corrupts memory after the shared info.
Tighten the start of packet bound to MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 so a packet can never
produce more fragments than frags[] can hold. This matches the recent skb
frags overflow fixes in other receive paths, for example f0813bcd2d9d ("net:
wwan: t7xx: fix potential skb->frags overflow in RX path") and 600dc40554dc
("net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()").
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b3b4e5ff5a58ad32817824b0310e63908b12052 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55d9895f89970501fe126d1026b586b04a224c27 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/569ba39b2d12995a29dc158e5b4de6e449278f30 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6262f51e09d8dc8b07599a9e4f03bd3989d13fff git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e27beb4536cbf1d59e2d8c2840e87d972aba906f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5824d5b841d99a2bcdd4e2c256643293bbc22c1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f96b3b35c622d565eff2438993e028d280163f5c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6b606fbf0c3beb94ccf17fcf31d8c2138264e3 git.kernel.org