{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-68770", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-12-24T10:30:51.035Z", "datePublished": "2026-01-13T15:28:48.604Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:11:23.212Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:11:23.212Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Fix XDP_TX path\n\nFor XDP_TX action in bnxt_rx_xdp(), clearing of the event flags is not\ncorrect. __bnxt_poll_work() -> bnxt_rx_pkt() -> bnxt_rx_xdp() may be\nlooping within NAPI and some event flags may be set in earlier\niterations. In particular, if BNXT_TX_EVENT is set earlier indicating\nsome XDP_TX packets are ready and pending, it will be cleared if it is\nXDP_TX action again. Normally, we will set BNXT_TX_EVENT again when we\nsuccessfully call __bnxt_xmit_xdp(). But if the TX ring has no more\nroom, the flag will not be set. This will cause the TX producer to be\nahead but the driver will not hit the TX doorbell.\n\nFor multi-buf XDP_TX, there is no need to clear the event flags and set\nBNXT_AGG_EVENT. The BNXT_AGG_EVENT flag should have been set earlier in\nbnxt_rx_pkt().\n\nThe visible symptom of this is that the RX ring associated with the\nTX XDP ring will eventually become empty and all packets will be dropped.\nBecause this condition will cause the driver to not refill the RX ring\nseeing that the TX ring has forever pending XDP_TX packets.\n\nThe fix is to only clear BNXT_RX_EVENT when we have successfully\ncalled __bnxt_xmit_xdp()." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - On an affected bnxt_en interface running an XDP_TX program, unauthenticated network packets reach bnxt_rx_xdp() directly through the hardware RX and NAPI path before protocol authentication.\nAC:L - An attacker can create the required TX-ring pressure with sustained packets that select XDP_TX; this is deterministic event-state corruption, not a race or memory-layout condition outside attacker control.\nPR:N - The packet-receive path has no capability or authentication check. Installing XDP requires administrative capabilities, but a preinstalled XDP_TX program is victim configuration and the remote attacker needs no privileges.\nUI:N - Once the affected interface and XDP program are active, exploitation requires no victim action.\nS:U - The failure affects networking resources managed by the same kernel and does not cross a virtualization, IOMMU, or other security boundary.\nC:N - The bug loses a doorbell event but does not expose memory or packet data. RX refill suppression deliberately preserves buffer ownership, preventing stale DMA access.\nI:N - No out-of-bounds write, use-after-free, descriptor overwrite, or unauthorized data modification occurs; queued descriptors are merely left unprocessed.\nA:H - The lost event permanently strands XDP_TX descriptors, exhausts the associated RX ring, and causes all packets on that queue to be dropped. By distributing traffic across RSS queues, an attacker can plausibly disable the entire interface until it is reset or reconfigured." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "7f0a168b0441ef7fd6b46563efb2706c58ac2a4c", "lessThan": "4b83902a1e67ff327ab5c6c65021a03e72c081d6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "7f0a168b0441ef7fd6b46563efb2706c58ac2a4c", "lessThan": "f17e0c1208485b24d61271bc1ddc8f2087e71561", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "7f0a168b0441ef7fd6b46563efb2706c58ac2a4c", "lessThan": "0373d5c387f24de749cc22e694a14b3a7c7eb515", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.8", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.8", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.64", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.19", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.8", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.64" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.8", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.3" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.8", "versionEndExcluding": "6.19" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b83902a1e67ff327ab5c6c65021a03e72c081d6" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f17e0c1208485b24d61271bc1ddc8f2087e71561" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0373d5c387f24de749cc22e694a14b3a7c7eb515" } ], "title": "bnxt_en: Fix XDP_TX path", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }