CVE-2026-31649
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode The jumbo_frm() chain-mode implementation unconditionally computes len = nopaged_len - bmax; where nopaged_len = skb_headlen(skb) (linear bytes only) and bmax is BUF_SIZE_8KiB or BUF_SIZE_2KiB. However, the caller stmmac_xmit() decides to invoke jumbo_frm() based on skb->len (total length including page fragments): is_jumbo = stmmac_is_jumbo_frm(priv, skb->len, enh_desc); When a packet has a small linear portion (nopaged_len <= bmax) but a large total length due to page fragments (skb->len > bmax), the subtraction wraps as an unsigned integer, producing a huge len value (~0xFFFFxxxx). This causes the while (len != 0) loop to execute hundreds of thousands of iterations, passing skb->data + bmax * i pointers far beyond the skb buffer to dma_map_single(). On IOMMU-less SoCs (the typical deployment for stmmac), this maps arbitrary kernel memory to the DMA engine, constituting a kernel memory disclosure and potential memory corruption from hardware. Fix this by introducing a buf_len local variable clamped to min(nopaged_len, bmax). Computing len = nopaged_len - buf_len is then always safe: it is zero when the linear portion fits within a single descriptor, causing the while (len != 0) loop to be skipped naturally, and the fragment loop in stmmac_xmit() handles page fragments afterward.
How to fix
- linux linux_kernel5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.169, 6.6.135, 6.12.82, 6.18.23, 6.19.13 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux linux_kernel | 3.2.1 ≤ v < 5.10.253, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.203, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.169, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.135, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.82, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.23, 6.19 ≤ v < 6.19.13, 3.2, 7.0 | 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.169, 6.6.135, 6.12.82, 6.18.23, 6.19.13 |
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