GHSA-PWF8-G74P-W24J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-13 18:31 – Updated: 2026-01-19 15:30
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iavf: fix off-by-one issues in iavf_config_rss_reg()

There are off-by-one bugs when configuring RSS hash key and lookup table, causing out-of-bounds reads to memory [1] and out-of-bounds writes to device registers.

Before commit 43a3d9ba34c9 ("i40evf: Allow PF driver to configure RSS"), the loop upper bounds were: i <= I40E_VFQF_{HKEY,HLUT}_MAX_INDEX which is safe since the value is the last valid index.

That commit changed the bounds to: i <= adapter->rss_{key,lut}_size / 4 where rss_{key,lut}_size / 4 is the number of dwords, so the last valid index is (rss_{key,lut}_size / 4) - 1. Therefore, using <= accesses one element past the end.

Fix the issues by using < instead of <=, ensuring we do not exceed the bounds.

[1] KASAN splat about rss_key_size off-by-one BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888102c50134 by task kworker/u8:6/63

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2-enjuk-tnguy-00378-g3005f5b77652-dirty #156 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: iavf iavf_watchdog_task Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0 print_report+0x170/0x4f3 kasan_report+0xe1/0x1a0 iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800 iavf_watchdog_task+0x2be7/0x3230 process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420 worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40 kthread+0x344/0x660 ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Allocated by task 63: kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90 __kmalloc_noprof+0x246/0x6f0 iavf_watchdog_task+0x28fc/0x3230 process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420 worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40 kthread+0x344/0x660 ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888102c50100 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 52-byte region [ffff888102c50100, ffff888102c50134)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102c50 flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0200000000000000 ffff8881000418c0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888102c50000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888102c50080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

ffff888102c50100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ^ ffff888102c50180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888102c50200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-71087"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-01-13T16:16:08Z",
    "severity": null
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niavf: fix off-by-one issues in iavf_config_rss_reg()\n\nThere are off-by-one bugs when configuring RSS hash key and lookup\ntable, causing out-of-bounds reads to memory [1] and out-of-bounds\nwrites to device registers.\n\nBefore commit 43a3d9ba34c9 (\"i40evf: Allow PF driver to configure RSS\"),\nthe loop upper bounds were:\n    i \u003c= I40E_VFQF_{HKEY,HLUT}_MAX_INDEX\nwhich is safe since the value is the last valid index.\n\nThat commit changed the bounds to:\n    i \u003c= adapter-\u003erss_{key,lut}_size / 4\nwhere `rss_{key,lut}_size / 4` is the number of dwords, so the last\nvalid index is `(rss_{key,lut}_size / 4) - 1`. Therefore, using `\u003c=`\naccesses one element past the end.\n\nFix the issues by using `\u003c` instead of `\u003c=`, ensuring we do not exceed\nthe bounds.\n\n[1] KASAN splat about rss_key_size off-by-one\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800\n  Read of size 4 at addr ffff888102c50134 by task kworker/u8:6/63\n\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2-enjuk-tnguy-00378-g3005f5b77652-dirty #156 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n  Workqueue: iavf iavf_watchdog_task\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0\n   print_report+0x170/0x4f3\n   kasan_report+0xe1/0x1a0\n   iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800\n   iavf_watchdog_task+0x2be7/0x3230\n   process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420\n   worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40\n   kthread+0x344/0x660\n   ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n  Allocated by task 63:\n   kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50\n   kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n   __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90\n   __kmalloc_noprof+0x246/0x6f0\n   iavf_watchdog_task+0x28fc/0x3230\n   process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420\n   worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40\n   kthread+0x344/0x660\n   ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n  The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888102c50100\n   which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64\n  The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n   allocated 52-byte region [ffff888102c50100, ffff888102c50134)\n\n  The buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102c50\n  flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)\n  page_type: f5(slab)\n  raw: 0200000000000000 ffff8881000418c0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000\n  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000\n  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\n  Memory state around the buggy address:\n   ffff888102c50000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n   ffff888102c50080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n  \u003effff888102c50100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n                                       ^\n   ffff888102c50180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n   ffff888102c50200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc",
  "id": "GHSA-pwf8-g74p-w24j",
  "modified": "2026-01-19T15:30:36Z",
  "published": "2026-01-13T18:31:06Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71087"
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      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3095228e1320371e143835d0cebeef1a8a754c66"
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