{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-97570","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-09-24T16:01:01.155Z","datePublished":"2026-09-25T10:21:55.604Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-25T14:41:16.080Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-09-25T14:41:16.080Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Bound SW TPA IDs to prevent crashes\n\nFW supports up to 1024 concurrent TPAs, so the FW TPA ID is in the range\n0..1023 (see commit ec4d8e7cf024 (\"bnxt_en: Add TPA ID mapping logic for\n57500 chips.\")). bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is intended to wrap the FW ID down to a\nsoftware ID which is used to index rxr->rx_tpa, and to generate a mapping\nbetween FW IDs and the wrapped software ID.\n\nOn a 57608 with firmware version 233, the firmware advertises 32\nconcurrent TPAs. As of the commit under fixes, bp->max_tpa on this NIC\nis set to 32.\n\nIf the software ID from bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is above 31, this results in\nan invalid address being loaded on this line:\n\n  tpa_info = &rxr->rx_tpa[agg_id];\n\nbecause rx_tpa is allocated with only bp->max_tpa (32) entries. Writes\nto tpa_info later in the code are out of bounds.\n\nThis bug results in a crash at boot:\n\nOops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x8: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\nRIP: 0010:bnxt_rx_pkt+0xc0/0x1560\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900009b8c78 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000048 RCX: 0000000206682516\nRDX: ffffc900009b8db4 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 01ffffff038fe1c0\nRBP: ffffc9006e687480 R08: ffffc9006e687000 R09: 0000000000003048\nR10: 0000000000000480 R11: ffff8881c6083900 R12: 0000000006682516\nR13: ffff8881c6095400 R14: 0000000000000016 R15: ffff8881c6b66680\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88fef3c77000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007fc8bda40584 CR3: 000000807c812001 CR4: 0000000008772ef0\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n <IRQ>\n ? __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1ca/0x250\n __bnxt_poll_work+0x152/0x280\n bnxt_poll_p5+0x1cd/0x480\n __napi_poll+0x30/0x180\n net_rx_action+0x20b/0x3b0\n ? note_gp_changes+0x53/0xe0\n ? tick_setup_sched_timer+0x180/0x180\n ? __napi_schedule+0x9a/0xb0\n ? bnxt_msix+0x24/0x30\n handle_softirqs+0xdd/0x2c0\n __irq_exit_rcu.llvm.3171231171502365008+0x47/0xf0\n common_interrupt+0x85/0x90\n </IRQ>\n <TASK>\n asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40\n\nThis stack trace is from a crash triggered when an out of bounds rx_tpa\nis dereferenced. The invalid write mentioned above is silent in this\nparticular crash.\n\nFix this by allocating rx_tpa with bp->max_tpa rounded up to the next\npower of 2 (bp->max_tpa_roundup_size) entries and masking the FW TPA ID\nwith that size, so the wrapped ID can never index past the end of the\narray."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":8.1,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:N - bnxt_tpa_start() runs from bnxt_rx_pkt()/__bnxt_poll_work() in NAPI when the NIC opens a TPA aggregation for received TCP segments, so a remote sender of TCP traffic drives the out-of-bounds rx_tpa[agg_id] access with no local access needed.\nAC:H - It needs a P7 NIC (e.g. 57608) whose firmware advertises max_aggs_supported <= 32 so max_tpa stays small. The firmware, not the attacker, picks TPA_START_AGG_ID_P5; a masked ID of 32-255 then overruns rx_tpa. The attacker controls neither the hardware/firmware nor the ID choice.\nPR:N - The path runs in the RX softirq on arriving TCP segments before any socket or authentication processing, so the sender needs no credentials.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed; normal packet reception on the bnxt interface with hardware GRO/TPA enabled reaches bnxt_tpa_start().\nS:U - The corruption is in kernel heap memory next to the kzalloc'ed rx_tpa array in the same kernel authority; no guest/host or IOMMU boundary is shown to be crossed.\nC:H - bnxt_tpa_start() reads data/data_ptr/mapping from an out-of-bounds bnxt_tpa_info and posts that mapping to the RX descriptor (rx_bd_haddr), so stale heap contents get handed to the NIC and later to skb construction, exposing out-of-bounds kernel memory.\nI:H - It writes buffer pointers, the DMA mapping, and packet-derived len/rss_hash/flags2/hdr_info past the end of rx_tpa, and has the NIC DMA received packet bytes to a stale mapping read from out-of-bounds memory; this is heap memory corruption.\nA:H - The commit's reproduction shows a general protection fault oops in bnxt_rx_pkt in IRQ context during boot under normal RX traffic, which takes the machine down."}]}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c","drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h"],"versions":[{"version":"54c28fab2fa5afd681c9c4b10f4f6da1efdd397a","lessThan":"05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"54c28fab2fa5afd681c9c4b10f4f6da1efdd397a","lessThan":"c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c","drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h"],"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.7","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3-rc3","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.2.7"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.3-rc3"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24ca"}],"title":"bnxt_en: Bound SW TPA IDs to prevent crashes","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}