bnxt_en: Bound SW TPA IDs to prevent crashes
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.44% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89, c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24ca.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89, c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24ca or later.
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Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bnxt_en: Bound SW TPA IDs to prevent crashes FW supports up to 1024 concurrent TPAs, so the FW TPA ID is in the range 0..1023 (see commit ec4d8e7cf024 ("bnxt_en: Add TPA ID mapping logic for 57500 chips.")). bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is intended to wrap the FW ID down to a software ID which is used to index rxr->rx_tpa, and to generate a mapping between FW IDs and the wrapped software ID. On a 57608 with firmware version 233, the firmware advertises 32 concurrent TPAs. As of the commit under fixes, bp->max_tpa on this NIC is set to 32. If the software ID from bnxt_alloc_agg_idx is above 31, this results in an invalid address being loaded on this line: tpa_info = &rxr->rx_tpa[agg_id]; because rx_tpa is allocated with only bp->max_tpa (32) entries. Writes to tpa_info later in the code are out of bounds. This bug results in a crash at boot: Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x8: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:bnxt_rx_pkt+0xc0/0x1560 RSP: 0018:ffffc900009b8c78 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000048 RCX: 0000000206682516 RDX: ffffc900009b8db4 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 01ffffff038fe1c0 RBP: ffffc9006e687480 R08: ffffc9006e687000 R09: 0000000000003048 R10: 0000000000000480 R11: ffff8881c6083900 R12: 0000000006682516 R13: ffff8881c6095400 R14: 0000000000000016 R15: ffff8881c6b66680 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88fef3c77000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fc8bda40584 CR3: 000000807c812001 CR4: 0000000008772ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <IRQ> ? __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1ca/0x250 __bnxt_poll_work+0x152/0x280 bnxt_poll_p5+0x1cd/0x480 __napi_poll+0x30/0x180 net_rx_action+0x20b/0x3b0 ? note_gp_changes+0x53/0xe0 ? tick_setup_sched_timer+0x180/0x180 ? __napi_schedule+0x9a/0xb0 ? bnxt_msix+0x24/0x30 handle_softirqs+0xdd/0x2c0 __irq_exit_rcu.llvm.3171231171502365008+0x47/0xf0 common_interrupt+0x85/0x90 </IRQ> <TASK> asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40 This stack trace is from a crash triggered when an out of bounds rx_tpa is dereferenced. The invalid write mentioned above is silent in this particular crash. Fix this by allocating rx_tpa with bp->max_tpa rounded up to the next power of 2 (bp->max_tpa_roundup_size) entries and masking the FW TPA ID with that size, so the wrapped ID can never index past the end of the array.
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 37th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
32
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · Linux
- 8.1
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Versions reported by the vendor
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Linux Linux
- 7.1affected
- 54c28fab2fa5afd681c9c4b10f4f6da1efdd397a and later · before 05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89affected · git
- 54c28fab2fa5afd681c9c4b10f4f6da1efdd397a and later · before c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24caaffected · git
- before 7.1not affected · semver
- 7.2.7 and later · up to and including 7.2.*not affected · semver
- 7.3 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.2.7-1 | 7.2.7-1 |
Same product
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-97568Sep 25, 2026 · mptcp: syncookies: remember the request backup flag0Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-97569Sep 25, 2026 · bnxt_en: Prevent queue stop with deferred completions0Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-97571Sep 25, 2026 · bnxt_en: Propagate TPA buffer allocation failures in bnxt_queue_mem_alloc()0Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 05cf64d171772c65bcdee76ee7163c35d9f55a89 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | c0aceaf65b70b3c000e70dd867f3a673015f24ca | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 7.2.7-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Chain candidates
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
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National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
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- TR-26-1184 · Sep 28, 2026(Linux Kernel Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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