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CVE-2026-31395 json

bnxt_en: fix OOB access in DBG_BUF_PRODUCER async event handler

published 7mo ago modified 4d ago also EUVD-2026-18772

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bnxt_en: fix OOB access in DBG_BUF_PRODUCER async event handler

The ASYNC_EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_DBG_BUF_PRODUCER handler in bnxt_async_event_process() uses a firmware-supplied 'type' field directly as an index into bp->bs_trace[] without bounds validation.

The 'type' field is a 16-bit value extracted from DMA-mapped completion ring memory that the NIC writes directly to host RAM. A malicious or compromised NIC can supply any value from 0 to 65535, causing an out-of-bounds access into kernel heap memory.

The bnxt_bs_trace_check_wrap() call then dereferences bs_trace->magic_byte and writes to bs_trace->last_offset and bs_trace->wrapped, leading to kernel memory corruption or a crash.

Fix by adding a bounds check and defining BNXT_TRACE_MAX as DBG_LOG_BUFFER_FLUSH_REQ_TYPE_ERR_QPC_TRACE + 1 to cover all currently defined firmware trace types (0x0 through 0xc).

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.18.20, 6.19.10, 7.0
  • linux Debian 14 6.19.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31395

  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1
  • kernel-default-base SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1.150700.17.33.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1SUSE-SU-2026:21834-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-31395 updated cvss 6.3

kernel: bnxt_en: fix OOB access in DBG_BUF_PRODUCER async event handler

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-selftests-internal
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4d ago

Exploit prediction

0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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