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GHSA-6CHX-4CX4-VRW4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-10 21:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

octeontx2-pf: Fix SQE threshold checking

Current way of checking available SQE count which is based on HW updated SQB count could result in driver submitting an SQE even before CQE for the previously transmitted SQE at the same index is processed in NAPI resulting losing SKB pointers, hence a leak. Fix this by checking a consumer index which is updated once CQE is processed.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2022-49858 (GCVE-0-2022-49858)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:10 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:21

Title

octeontx2-pf: Fix SQE threshold checking

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix SQE threshold checking Current way of checking available SQE count which is based on HW updated SQB count could result in driver submitting an SQE even before CQE for the previously transmitted SQE at the same index is processed in NAPI resulting losing SKB pointers, hence a leak. Fix this by checking a consumer index which is updated once CQE is processed.

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:18 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/015e3c0a3b16193aa…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0dfc4c88ef39be0b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3ca6c4c882a7f34085b170d93cf0d0e843aa00e6 , < 015e3c0a3b16193aab23beefe4719484b9984c2d (git) Affected: 3ca6c4c882a7f34085b170d93cf0d0e843aa00e6 , < f0dfc4c88ef39be0ba736aa0ce6119263fc19aeb (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.9 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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