CVE-2026-90142 (GCVE-0-2026-90142)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:06
Modified
2026-10-21 12:50
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_net: Fix resize of the RX ring When a AF_XDP socket is attached, the virtnet_rx_resize should resize the rq->xsk_buffs XSK buffer array. Otherwise, when the size grows, the virtnet_rx_resume() causes a write past the end of the array. This is easily reproducable with ethtool -G ens3 rx 32 ./xdpsock -i eth0 -q 0 -r -z & ethtool -G eth0 rx 256
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Linux Linux Version: e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568
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Version: e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568
Version: e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio_net: Fix resize of the RX ring\n\nWhen a AF_XDP socket is attached, the virtnet_rx_resize\nshould resize the rq-\u003exsk_buffs XSK buffer array. Otherwise,\nwhen the size grows, the virtnet_rx_resume() causes a write\npast the end of the array. This is easily reproducable with\n\n    ethtool -G ens3 rx 32\n    ./xdpsock -i eth0 -q 0 -r -z \u0026\n    ethtool -G eth0 rx 256"
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              "value": "AV:L - The overflow is driven by ring-\u003erx_pending passed to virtnet_set_ringparam() from SIOCETHTOOL ETHTOOL_SRINGPARAM (ethtool_set_ringparam) or ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_SET (ethnl_set_rings), after virtnet_xsk_pool_enable() sized rq-\u003exsk_buffs from AF_XDP bind(); received packets never supply the new vring length.\nAC:L - The reporter\u0027s sequence (ethtool -G rx 32, xdpsock -z, ethtool -G rx 256) deterministically grows the vring while leaving xsk_buffs at the old size; virtnet_rx_resume()-\u003etry_fill_recv()-\u003evirtnet_add_recvbuf_xsk() then passes rq-\u003evq-\u003enum_free to xsk_buff_alloc_batch(). The attacker controls both sizes and the UMEM fill ring; there is no race.\nPR:L - ETHTOOL_MSG_RINGS_SET is GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM (netlink_ns_capable CAP_NET_ADMIN) and the ioctl path checks ns_capable(net-\u003euser_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN); AF_XDP socket() checks ns_capable(net-\u003euser_ns, CAP_NET_RAW) in xsk_create(). Both are available in a user-owned netns that holds the virtio_net device, not init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker themselves issues the ethtool ring-resize ioctl/netlink and bind()s the AF_XDP zero-copy socket (xdpsock -z) that calls virtnet_xsk_pool_enable(); no separate victim action such as mounting media is required.\nS:U - virtnet_add_recvbuf_xsk() overflows rq-\u003exsk_buffs in the same kernel that hosts the virtio_net frontend. That is guest-kernel heap corruption, not a KVM/vhost guest-to-host escape or IOMMU bypass.\nC:H - After virtqueue_resize(), xsk_buff_alloc_batch() writes up to the new vring\u0027s num_free xdp_buff* values past the old xsk_buffs kvzalloc, corrupting adjacent heap objects with kernel pointers that can be turned into an arbitrary read.\nI:H - The same out-of-bounds xdp_buff* write, and the virtqueue_add_inbuf_premapped() loop that then consumes xsk_buffs[i] through that overflowed range, is kernel heap corruption usable for an arbitrary write or control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The heap overflow in virtnet_add_recvbuf_xsk() during virtnet_rx_resume() after virtqueue_resize() is a kernel memory-safety violation that oopses or panics even without a full exploit, matching the commit\u0027s write-past-end."
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