CVE-2026-68293

net/mlx5: Fix MCIA register buffer overflow on 32 dword reads

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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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.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before 5ed6d41029832b11bc204d7cc326cf309d073666Affected
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before c8a4acc19dcdc83e1303c29d9535e5c99415a2e3Affected
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before 5be4eebd5a3a198dab0adcd550e1cadca79bdfedAffected
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before 87b39a8c875ca744b7de69af0a8ef8874cffccf1Affected
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before 88b2a16ddac3357e3f1d528e758b51e2c945d546Affected
  • 271907ee2f29cd1078fd219f0778fd824fb1971c to before 11c057d23465c7a5817a7284c896d19d54c0b616Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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