CVE-2026-98027

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bound the policy rule dump by the caller's buffer size

HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: September 25, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bound the policy rule dump by the caller's buffer size mv88e6xxx_get_rxnfc() uses rxnfc->rule_cnt as the write index while dumping the policy IDR, clobbering the input value before it has been looked at. That input is the number of entries the caller had room for. ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL requires no CAP_NET_ADMIN and the ioctl sizes the buffer from the rule_cnt userspace passes in, so once an admin has installed policy rules any user can ask for fewer slots than there are rules and run off the end of the allocation. A rule_cnt of 0 leaves the buffer pointer NULL and the walk dereferences it. Count into a local so the caller's limit survives the walk, and stop with -EMSGSIZE once it is reached.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.4da7dc87553046a43be1620a783ce3d9f6583d322
Vendor states this is fixed in 01124cd2cf4b71755b1130ac82d78dcfbd5d69e3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 44cd4674d9aa5bdf793b8a8b481c9e8536ed6070 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 609c4378f212cf580aae02250f1146caf63d873f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7a683c2b062810bca203e41866389daf387c235b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7e4bfc5f0b66feb22cba821303fc25ca22cd0887 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b1fffc273112e7284c5b705e186b43b5770cd3d5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c5b5c52b6524c9fb50def2260baac745c095ec3a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cda5ac8fe8ac8e80b1703ebb8c4250726fc19739 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.271 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.222 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.189 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.158 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

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