CVE-2026-31501 (GCVE-0-2026-31501)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 13:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:23
VLAI
Title
net: ti: icssg-prueth: fix use-after-free of CPPI descriptor in RX path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ti: icssg-prueth: fix use-after-free of CPPI descriptor in RX path cppi5_hdesc_get_psdata() returns a pointer into the CPPI descriptor. In both emac_rx_packet() and emac_rx_packet_zc(), the descriptor is freed via k3_cppi_desc_pool_free() before the psdata pointer is used by emac_rx_timestamp(), which dereferences psdata[0] and psdata[1]. This constitutes a use-after-free on every received packet that goes through the timestamp path. Defer the descriptor free until after all accesses through the psdata pointer are complete. For emac_rx_packet(), move the free into the requeue label so both early-exit and success paths free the descriptor after all accesses are done. For emac_rx_packet_zc(), move the free to the end of the loop body after emac_dispatch_skb_zc() (which calls emac_rx_timestamp()) has returned.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 46eeb90f03e03d5e8f7f9f1f0eb0792104fc5f86 , < d5827316debcb677679bb014885d7be92c410e11 (git)
Affected: 46eeb90f03e03d5e8f7f9f1f0eb0792104fc5f86 , < eb8c426c9803beb171f89d15fea17505eb517714 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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