FKIE_CVE-2026-31649
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-24 15:16 - Updated: 2026-04-24 17:51
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Summary
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.
References
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode\n\nThe jumbo_frm() chain-mode implementation unconditionally computes\n\n len = nopaged_len - bmax;\n\nwhere nopaged_len = skb_headlen(skb) (linear bytes only) and bmax is\nBUF_SIZE_8KiB or BUF_SIZE_2KiB. However, the caller stmmac_xmit()\ndecides to invoke jumbo_frm() based on skb-\u003elen (total length including\npage fragments):\n\n is_jumbo = stmmac_is_jumbo_frm(priv, skb-\u003elen, enh_desc);\n\nWhen a packet has a small linear portion (nopaged_len \u003c= bmax) but a\nlarge total length due to page fragments (skb-\u003elen \u003e bmax), the\nsubtraction wraps as an unsigned integer, producing a huge len value\n(~0xFFFFxxxx). This causes the while (len != 0) loop to execute\nhundreds of thousands of iterations, passing skb-\u003edata + bmax * i\npointers far beyond the skb buffer to dma_map_single(). On IOMMU-less\nSoCs (the typical deployment for stmmac), this maps arbitrary kernel\nmemory to the DMA engine, constituting a kernel memory disclosure and\npotential memory corruption from hardware.\n\nFix this by introducing a buf_len local variable clamped to\nmin(nopaged_len, bmax). Computing len = nopaged_len - buf_len is then\nalways safe: it is zero when the linear portion fits within a single\ndescriptor, causing the while (len != 0) loop to be skipped naturally,\nand the fragment loop in stmmac_xmit() handles page fragments afterward."
}
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"id": "CVE-2026-31649",
"lastModified": "2026-04-24T17:51:40.810",
"metrics": {},
"published": "2026-04-24T15:16:44.330",
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"vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}
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