CVE-2026-93246

octeontx2-af: fix out-of-bounds read setting MSI-X irq affinity

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

octeontx2-af: fix out-of-bounds read setting MSI-X irq affinity

rvu_register_interrupts() walks every MSI-X vector and uses strstr() to match "Mbox" or "FLR" in irq_name before pinning those interrupts to CPU 0. irq_name is a per-vector NAME_SIZE buffer, but not every slot is populated before this loop runs. strstr() keeps scanning until it finds a NUL terminator, so an uninitialized slot can trigger a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read at boot when debug options are enabled.

Use strnstr() with NAME_SIZE to bound the search within each vector's name buffer.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4e527f1e5c155ce28164ba34cad47b635d16f827 to before 2f460aa0211e97c011ef0cfe5016f8f2a2ed059bAffected
  • 4e527f1e5c155ce28164ba34cad47b635d16f827 to before 4d5df98369c5f45710b786499f8bd7ffc3196433Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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