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GHSA-H68F-VQ23-XJH9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-29 09:30

Details

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

idpf: bound interrupt-vector register fill to the allocated array

idpf_get_reg_intr_vecs() fills the caller-allocated reg_vals[] array from the VIRTCHNL2_OP_ALLOC_VECTORS reply in adapter->req_vec_chunks, bounding its inner loop only by the per-chunk num_vectors. The array is sized separately: idpf_intr_reg_init() allocates kzalloc_objs(struct idpf_vec_regs, total_vecs) from caps.num_allocated_vectors and only checks the returned count after the fill. The sum of per-chunk num_vectors is never reconciled against total_vecs, so a reply with a small num_allocated_vectors but chunks summing higher writes past the end of reg_vals[].

Impact: a control plane (a PF or hypervisor device model) that returns a VIRTCHNL2_OP_ALLOC_VECTORS reply whose per-chunk num_vectors sum exceeds num_allocated_vectors writes struct idpf_vec_regs entries past the end of the reg_vals kmalloc allocation (KASAN slab-out-of-bounds write).

Bound the fill loop to the array capacity passed in by the callers, mirroring the sibling idpf_vport_get_q_reg(). The existing num_regs < num_vecs check then rejects an undersized reply without the out-of-bounds write happening first.

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


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

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CVE-2026-80693 (GCVE-0-2026-80693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:52 – Updated: 2026-08-29 06:22

Title

idpf: bound interrupt-vector register fill to the allocated array

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: bound interrupt-vector register fill to the allocated array idpf_get_reg_intr_vecs() fills the caller-allocated reg_vals[] array from the VIRTCHNL2_OP_ALLOC_VECTORS reply in adapter->req_vec_chunks, bounding its inner loop only by the per-chunk num_vectors. The array is sized separately: idpf_intr_reg_init() allocates kzalloc_objs(struct idpf_vec_regs, total_vecs) from caps.num_allocated_vectors and only checks the returned count after the fill. The sum of per-chunk num_vectors is never reconciled against total_vecs, so a reply with a small num_allocated_vectors but chunks summing higher writes past the end of reg_vals[]. Impact: a control plane (a PF or hypervisor device model) that returns a VIRTCHNL2_OP_ALLOC_VECTORS reply whose per-chunk num_vectors sum exceeds num_allocated_vectors writes struct idpf_vec_regs entries past the end of the reg_vals kmalloc allocation (KASAN slab-out-of-bounds write). Bound the fill loop to the array capacity passed in by the callers, mirroring the sibling idpf_vport_get_q_reg(). The existing num_regs < num_vecs check then rejects an undersized reply without the out-of-bounds write happening first.

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41bb8748124d0d8ee…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f7007ee9858c99aa…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: d4d5587182664b0c4ab6d3556ce881cb975507c2 , < 41bb8748124d0d8ee5d8e1eace9dfbc874bc9564 (git) Affected: d4d5587182664b0c4ab6d3556ce881cb975507c2 , < 9f7007ee9858c99aa43101bc8352c672fee85644 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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