CVE-2026-63857 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 19.07.2026 Updated: 20.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 to f670fa4b19ceddc6d215dda4997888ccba9bbc61 (excl.)
  • affected from 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 to d78c8ab7bd84952e053d0c622b7fc1b4ad8a19a3 (excl.)
  • affected from 23020f04932701d5c8363e60756f12b43b8ed752 to bde34e84edc8b5571fbde7e941e175a4293ee1eb (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.33 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.10 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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