CVE-2026-31649: net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 513e06735f5be575b409d195822195348b164e48 (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1) · < 275bdf762e82082f064e60a92448fa2ac43cf95b (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1) · < a2b68a9a476b9544ff31f1fbcd5d80867a8a5e2f (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1) · < b7b8012193fd98236d7ae05d4b553f010a77b2ef (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1) · < 2c91b39912278d0878f9ba60ba04d2518b18a08d (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1) · < 6fca757c20396dc2e604dcc61922264e9e3dc803 (from 286a837217204b1ef105e3a554d0757e4fdfaac1)
- Linux / Linux3.2Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.169, 6.6.135, 6.12.82, 6.18.23, 6.19.13, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H