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FKIE_CVE-2026-63857

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-19 15:16 - Updated: 2026-07-27 17:44

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Do not read uninitialized fragment address in airoha_dev_xmit() The transmit loop in airoha_dev_xmit() reads fragment address and length during its final iteration, when the loop index equals skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, at which point the fragment data is uninitialized. While these values are never consumed, the read itself is unsafe and may trigger a page fault. Fix this by avoiding the fragment read on the last iteration. Additionally, move the skb pointer from the first to the last used packet descriptor, so that airoha_qdma_tx_napi_poll() defers freeing the skb until the final descriptor is processed.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bde34e84edc8b5571fbde7e941e175a4293ee1eb
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d78c8ab7bd84952e053d0c622b7fc1b4ad8a19a3
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f670fa4b19ceddc6d215dda4997888ccba9bbc61

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2026-07-27T17:44:23.777",
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CVE-2026-63857 (GCVE-0-2026-63857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 14:04 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:36

Title

net: airoha: Do not read uninitialized fragment address in airoha_dev_xmit()

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f670fa4b19ceddc6d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d78c8ab7bd84952e0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bde34e84edc8b5571…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 , < f670fa4b19ceddc6d215dda4997888ccba9bbc61 (git) Affected: 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 , < d78c8ab7bd84952e053d0c622b7fc1b4ad8a19a3 (git) Affected: 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 , < bde34e84edc8b5571fbde7e941e175a4293ee1eb (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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