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CVE-2026-31649

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-31649
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-03-09 15:48 UTC
Published
2026-04-24 14:45 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-14 12:48 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 < 513e06735f5be575b409d195822195348b164e48, 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 < 275bdf762e82082f064e60a92448fa2ac43cf95b, 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 < a2b68a9a476b9544ff31f1fbcd5d80867a8a5e2f, 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1 < b7b8012193fd98236d7ae05d4b553f010a77b2ef …
Linux Linux 3.2, 0 < 3.2, 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* …
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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