CVE-2026-74712

vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Updated
Aug 25, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

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

vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()

We have seen in our CI the following KASAN message: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core] Read of size 272 at addr 0000000176795020 by task qemu-system-s39/82764 [...] [<000011388ab3a7a0>] cmd_exec+0x550/0xca0 [mlx5_core] [<000011388ab3b61c>] mlx5_cmd_exec_cb+0x25c/0x4f0 [mlx5_core] [<000011388b21e82e>] mlx5_vdpa_exec_async_cmds+0x22e/0x5e0 [mlx5_vdpa] [<000011388b21fd44>] create_direct_keys+0x954/0xef0 [mlx5_vdpa] [...] The buggy address is located 4128 bytes inside of allocated 4384-byte region [0000000176794000, 0000000176795120)

So in essence we read 16 bytes beyond 4384-byte allocation. create_direct_keys calculates the pointer and length for in and out buffers. The size calculation for in includes the entire structure size (out + in + mtt[]) but the pointer passed to cmd_exec points only to the 'in' field, skipping the 'out' field.

This causes mlx5_copy_to_msg() to read beyond the allocated buffer by sizeof(out) bytes when copying command data.

Properly calculate the input size to match the pointer and allocation size.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before ec3bb289cf19d526224117d5d450a5fd9cbd5ab2Affected
  • 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before cde8931a25392670dd59a0acfcab87a830ab66c5Affected
  • 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before 6c8a9f7bc00301e533a5366384f3070a8e7f8430Affected
  • 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before 727e1f569855df83579edbd73dcb4a0723543a12Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.104 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.45 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.9 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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