CVE-2026-64055 PUBLISHED

net: ethernet: cortina: Carry over frag counter

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: ethernet: cortina: Carry over frag counter

The gmac_rx() NAPI poll function assembles packets in an SKB from a ring buffer.

If the ring buffer gets completely emptied during a poll cycle, we exit gmac_rx(), but the packet is not yet completely assembled in the SKB, yet the fragment counter frag_nr is reset to zero on the next invocation.

Solve this by making the RX fragment counter a part of the port struct, and carry it over between invocations.

Reset the fragment counter only right after calling napi_gro_frags(), on error (after calling napi_free_frags()) or if stopping the port.

Reset it in some place where not strictly necessary just to emphasize what is going on.

This was found by Sashiko during normal patch review.

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 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to df31e3b64455293df1ea89c7da7d5c9bfbcdd253 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 7af1fabdee744b7995fe01b30b77dfc397657cb5 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 75105fcf73f1ce7d9f769aaefec6e6d6645d5ac0 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 78cf08b3be47c28f07008a76c932bad7cdffa9d8 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 7123cf481e21b54eb6adc4cb0d8dc2876aeaee41 (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to c373b34877afea61c89e0dd2e38948c624249b9b (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to 46806096f35b8d3dfa2f321ddd77f597edcdb85f (excl.)
  • affected from 4d5ae32f5e1e13f7f36d6439ec3257993b9f5b88 to ebd8ec2b309e3a447851b456ccaf8fb39f3661e7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.258 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.209 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.175 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.142 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.92 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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