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Message-ID: <2026011343-CVE-2025-71093-387f@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:35:52 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-71093: e1000: fix OOB in e1000_tbi_should_accept()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
e1000: fix OOB in e1000_tbi_should_accept()
In e1000_tbi_should_accept() we read the last byte of the frame via
'data[length - 1]' to evaluate the TBI workaround. If the descriptor-
reported length is zero or larger than the actual RX buffer size, this
read goes out of bounds and can hit unrelated slab objects. The issue
is observed from the NAPI receive path (e1000_clean_rx_irq):
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in e1000_tbi_should_accept+0x610/0x790
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888014114e54 by task sshd/363
CPU: 0 PID: 363 Comm: sshd Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x74
print_address_description+0x7b/0x440
print_report+0x101/0x200
kasan_report+0xc1/0xf0
e1000_tbi_should_accept+0x610/0x790
e1000_clean_rx_irq+0xa8c/0x1110
e1000_clean+0xde2/0x3c10
__napi_poll+0x98/0x380
net_rx_action+0x491/0xa20
__do_softirq+0x2c9/0x61d
do_softirq+0xd1/0x120
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xfe/0x130
ip_finish_output2+0x7d5/0xb00
__ip_queue_xmit+0xe24/0x1ab0
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x1bcb/0x3340
tcp_write_xmit+0x175d/0x6bd0
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0x7b/0x280
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2e4f/0x32d0
tcp_sendmsg+0x24/0x40
sock_write_iter+0x322/0x430
vfs_write+0x56c/0xa60
ksys_write+0xd1/0x190
do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f511b476b10
Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 88 d3 2b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 3d f9 2b 2c 00 00 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 31 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 8e 9b 01 00 48 89 04 24
RSP: 002b:00007ffc9211d4e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000004024 RCX: 00007f511b476b10
RDX: 0000000000004024 RSI: 0000559a9385962c RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000559a9383a400 R08: fffffffffffffff0 R09: 0000000000004f00
R10: 0000000000000070 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffc9211d57f R14: 0000559a9347bde7 R15: 0000000000000003
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1:
__kasan_krealloc+0x131/0x1c0
krealloc+0x90/0xc0
add_sysfs_param+0xcb/0x8a0
kernel_add_sysfs_param+0x81/0xd4
param_sysfs_builtin+0x138/0x1a6
param_sysfs_init+0x57/0x5b
do_one_initcall+0x104/0x250
do_initcall_level+0x102/0x132
do_initcalls+0x46/0x74
kernel_init_freeable+0x28f/0x393
kernel_init+0x14/0x1a0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888014114000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1620 bytes to the right of
2048-byte region [ffff888014114000, ffff888014114800]
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000504400 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x14110
head:ffffea0000504400 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x100000000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1)
raw: 0100000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888013442000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
==================================================================
This happens because the TBI check unconditionally dereferences the last
byte without validating the reported length first:
u8 last_byte = *(data + length - 1);
Fix by rejecting the frame early if the length is zero, or if it exceeds
adapter->rx_buffer_len. This preserves the TBI workaround semantics for
valid frames and prevents touching memory beyond the RX buffer.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-71093 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 3.18 with commit 2037110c96d5f1dd71453fcd0d54e79be12a352b and fixed in 6.1.160 with commit ad7a2a45e2417ac54089926b520924f8f0d91aea
Issue introduced in 3.18 with commit 2037110c96d5f1dd71453fcd0d54e79be12a352b and fixed in 6.6.120 with commit 2c4c0c09f9648ba766d399917d420d03e7b3e1f8
Issue introduced in 3.18 with commit 2037110c96d5f1dd71453fcd0d54e79be12a352b and fixed in 6.12.64 with commit 26c8bebc2f25288c2bcac7bc0a7662279a0e817c
Issue introduced in 3.18 with commit 2037110c96d5f1dd71453fcd0d54e79be12a352b and fixed in 6.18.4 with commit ee7c125fb3e8b04dd46510130b9fc92380e5d578
Issue introduced in 3.18 with commit 2037110c96d5f1dd71453fcd0d54e79be12a352b and fixed in 6.19-rc4 with commit 9c72a5182ed92904d01057f208c390a303f00a0f
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-71093
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad7a2a45e2417ac54089926b520924f8f0d91aea
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4c0c09f9648ba766d399917d420d03e7b3e1f8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26c8bebc2f25288c2bcac7bc0a7662279a0e817c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee7c125fb3e8b04dd46510130b9fc92380e5d578
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c72a5182ed92904d01057f208c390a303f00a0f
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