CVE-2026-31505 (GCVE-0-2026-31505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 13:54 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:03
VLAI?
Title
iavf: fix out-of-bounds writes in iavf_get_ethtool_stats()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iavf: fix out-of-bounds writes in iavf_get_ethtool_stats()
iavf incorrectly uses real_num_tx_queues for ETH_SS_STATS. Since the
value could change in runtime, we should use num_tx_queues instead.
Moreover iavf_get_ethtool_stats() uses num_active_queues while
iavf_get_sset_count() and iavf_get_stat_strings() use
real_num_tx_queues, which triggers out-of-bounds writes when we do
"ethtool -L" and "ethtool -S" simultaneously [1].
For example when we change channels from 1 to 8, Thread 3 could be
scheduled before Thread 2, and out-of-bounds writes could be triggered
in Thread 3:
Thread 1 (ethtool -L) Thread 2 (work) Thread 3 (ethtool -S)
iavf_set_channels()
...
iavf_alloc_queues()
-> num_active_queues = 8
iavf_schedule_finish_config()
iavf_get_sset_count()
real_num_tx_queues: 1
-> buffer for 1 queue
iavf_get_ethtool_stats()
num_active_queues: 8
-> out-of-bounds!
iavf_finish_config()
-> real_num_tx_queues = 8
Use immutable num_tx_queues in all related functions to avoid the issue.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in iavf_add_one_ethtool_stat+0x200/0x270
Write of size 8 at addr ffffc900031c9080 by task ethtool/5800
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5800 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 6.19.0-enjuk-08403-g8137e3db7f1c #241 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
print_report+0x170/0x4f3
kasan_report+0xe1/0x180
iavf_add_one_ethtool_stat+0x200/0x270
iavf_get_ethtool_stats+0x14c/0x2e0
__dev_ethtool+0x3d0c/0x5830
dev_ethtool+0x12d/0x270
dev_ioctl+0x53c/0xe30
sock_do_ioctl+0x1a9/0x270
sock_ioctl+0x3d4/0x5e0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x137/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x690
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7da0e6e36d
...
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to a 1-page vmalloc region starting at 0xffffc900031c9000 allocated at __dev_ethtool+0x3cc9/0x5830
The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0xffff88813a013de0 pfn:0x13a013
flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
raw: 0200000000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: ffff88813a013de0 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffc900031c8f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc900031c9000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffc900031c9080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffffc900031c9100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc900031c9180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
64430f70ba6fcd5872ac190f4ae3ddee3f48f00d , < 1f931dee5b726df1940348ec31614d64bac03aa6
(git)
Affected: 64430f70ba6fcd5872ac190f4ae3ddee3f48f00d , < bb85741d2dc2be207353a412f51b83697fcbefcf (git) Affected: 64430f70ba6fcd5872ac190f4ae3ddee3f48f00d , < fdf902bf86a80bf15792a1d20a67a5302498d7f1 (git) Affected: 64430f70ba6fcd5872ac190f4ae3ddee3f48f00d , < fecacfc95f195b99c71c579a472120d0b4ed65fa (git) |
||
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