CVE-2025-68301

net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path

The atlantic driver can receive packets with more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17) fragments when handling large multi-descriptor packets. This causes an out-of-bounds write in skb_add_rx_frag_netmem() leading to kernel panic.

The issue occurs because the driver doesn't check the total number of fragments before calling skb_add_rx_frag(). When a packet requires more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS fragments, the fragment index exceeds the array bounds.

Fix by assuming there will be an extra frag if buff->len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE, then all fragments are accounted for. And reusing the existing check to prevent the overflow earlier in the code path.

This crash occurred in production with an Aquantia AQC113 10G NIC.

Stack trace from production environment: ``` RIP: 0010:skb_add_rx_frag_netmem+0x29/0xd0 Code: 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 41 89 ca 48 89 d7 48 63 ce 8b 90 c0 00 00 00 48 c1 e1 04 48 01 ca 48 03 90 c8 00 00 00 <48> 89 7a 30 44 89 52 3c 44 89 42 38 40 f6 c7 01 75 74 48 89 fa 83 RSP: 0018:ffffa9bec02a8d50 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff925b22e80a00 RBX: ffff925ad38d2700 RCX: fffffffe0a0c8000 RDX: ffff9258ea95bac0 RSI: ffff925ae0a0c800 RDI: 0000000000037a40 RBP: 0000000000000024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000021 R10: 0000000000000848 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa9bec02a8e24 R13: ffff925ad8615570 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff925b22e80a00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff925e47880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff9258ea95baf0 CR3: 0000000166022004 CR4: 0000000000f72ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <IRQ> aq_ring_rx_clean+0x175/0xe60 [atlantic] ? aq_ring_rx_clean+0x14d/0xe60 [atlantic] ? aq_ring_tx_clean+0xdf/0x190 [atlantic] ? kmem_cache_free+0x348/0x450 ? aq_vec_poll+0x81/0x1d0 [atlantic] ? __napi_poll+0x28/0x1c0 ? net_rx_action+0x337/0x420 ```

Changes in v4: - Add Fixes: tag to satisfy patch validation requirements.

Changes in v3: - Fix by assuming there will be an extra frag if buff->len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE, then all fragments are accounted for.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cd66ab20a8f84474564a68fffffd37d998f6c340 to before 34147477eeab24077fcfe9649e282849347d760cAffected
  • 948ddbdc56636773401f2cb9c7a932eb9c43ccfd to before b0c4d5135b04ea100988e2458c98f2d8564cda16Affected
  • 6aecbba12b5c90b26dc062af3b9de8c4b3a2f19f to before 5d6051ea1b0417ae2f06a8440d22e48fbc8f8997Affected
  • 6aecbba12b5c90b26dc062af3b9de8c4b3a2f19f to before 3be37c3c96b16462394fcb8e15e757c691377038Affected
  • 6aecbba12b5c90b26dc062af3b9de8c4b3a2f19f to before 3fd2105e1b7e041cc24be151c9a31a14d5fc50abAffected
  • 6aecbba12b5c90b26dc062af3b9de8c4b3a2f19f to before 64e47cd1fd631a21bf5a630cebefec6c8fc381cdAffected
  • 6aecbba12b5c90b26dc062af3b9de8c4b3a2f19f to before 5ffcb7b890f61541201461580bb6622ace405aecAffected
  • dd4fb02847e737cc38ca75e708b1a836fba45fafAffected
  • 5.10.118 to before 5.10.247Affected
  • 5.15.42 to before 5.15.197Affected
  • 5.17.10 to before 5.18Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 5.10.247 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.197 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.159 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.119 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.61 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.11 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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