Status: UPDATED | Advisory ID: CVE-2026-97570
| CVE | CVE-2026-97570 |
| CVSS Score / Version | 8.1 (High) / CVSS v3.1 |
| Updated | 2026-09-25 |
| CVSS Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CVSS Prose | attack vector is network; attack complexity is high; privileges required is none; user interaction is none; scope is unchanged; confidentiality impact is high; integrity impact is high; availability impact is high. |
| Affected products | Linux Linux |
| Vendor | Product | Affected Versions | Patch Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
| Subsystems | General OT |
| Sectors | Multiple |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt_en: Bound SW TPA IDs to prevent crashes
FW supports up to 1024 concurrent TPAs, so the FW TPA ID is in the range
0..1023 (see commit ec4d8e7cf024 ("bnxt_en: Add TPA ID mapping logic for
57500 chips.")). bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is intended to wrap the FW ID down to a
software ID which is used to index rxr->rx_tpa, and to generate a mapping
between FW IDs and the wrapped software ID.
On a 57608 with firmware version 233, the firmware advertises 32
concurrent TPAs. As of the commit under fixes, bp->max_tpa on this NIC
is set to 32.
If the software ID from bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is above 31, this results in
an invalid address being loaded on this line:
tpa_info = &rxr->rx_tpa[agg_id];
because rx_tpa is allocated with only bp->max_tpa (32) entries. Writes
to tpa_info later in the code are out of bounds.
This bug results in a crash at boot:
Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x8: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:bnxt_rx_pkt+0xc0/0x1560
RSP: 0018:ffffc900009b8c78 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000048 RCX: 0000000206682516
RDX: ffffc900009b8db4 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 01ffffff038fe1c0
RBP: ffffc9006e687480 R08: ffffc9006e687000 R09: 0000000000003048
R10: 0000000000000480 R11: ffff8881c6083900 R12: 0000000006682516
R13: ffff8881c6095400 R14: 0000000000000016 R15: ffff8881c6b66680
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88fef3c77000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc8bda40584 CR3: 000000807c812001 CR4: 0000000008772ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1ca/0x250
__bnxt_poll_work+0x152/0x280
bnxt_poll_p5+0x1cd/0x480
__napi_poll+0x30/0x180
net_rx_action+0x20b/0x3b0
? note_gp_changes+0x53/0xe0
? tick_setup_sched_timer+0x180/0x180
? __napi_schedule+0x9a/0xb0
? bnxt_msix+0x24/0x30
handle_softirqs+0xdd/0x2c0
__irq_exit_rcu.llvm.3171231171502365008+0x47/0xf0
common_interrupt+0x85/0x90
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
This stack trace is from a crash triggered when an out of bounds rx_tpa
is dereferenced. The invalid write mentioned above is silent in this
particular crash.
Fix this by allocating rx_tpa with bp->max_tpa rounded up to the next
power of 2 (bp->max_tpa_roundup_size) entries and masking the FW TPA ID
with that size, so the wrapped ID can never index past the end of the
array. (NVD)
Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.
| Source | Reference |
|---|---|
| NVD | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97570 |
| CVE | https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97570 |