CVE-2025-71087
mediumCVSS v3 Base Score
6.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 84% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iavf: fix off-by-one issues in iavf_config_rss_reg()
There are off-by-one bugs when configuring RSS hash key and lookup
table, causing out-of-bounds reads to memory [1] and out-of-bounds
writes to device registers.
Before commit 43a3d9ba34c9 ("i40evf: Allow PF driver to configure RSS"),
the loop upper bounds were:
i <= I40E_VFQF_{HKEY,HLUT}_MAX_INDEX
which is safe since the value is the last valid index.
That commit changed the bounds to:
i <= adapter->rss_{key,lut}_size / 4
where `rss_{key,lut}_size / 4` is the number of dwords, so the last
valid index is `(rss_{key,lut}_size / 4) - 1`. Therefore, using `<=`
accesses one element past the end.
Fix the issues by using `<` instead of `<=`, ensuring we do not exceed
the bounds.
[1] KASAN splat about rss_key_size off-by-one
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888102c50134 by task kworker/u8:6/63
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2-enjuk-tnguy-00378-g3005f5b77652-dirty #156 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: iavf iavf_watchdog_task
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
print_report+0x170/0x4f3
kasan_report+0xe1/0x1a0
iavf_config_rss+0x619/0x800
iavf_watchdog_task+0x2be7/0x3230
process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420
worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40
kthread+0x344/0x660
ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Allocated by task 63:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90
__kmalloc_noprof+0x246/0x6f0
iavf_watchdog_task+0x28fc/0x3230
process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1420
worker_thread+0x4d1/0xd40
kthread+0x344/0x660
ret_from_fork+0x249/0x320
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888102c50100
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 52-byte region [ffff888102c50100, ffff888102c50134)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102c50
flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0200000000000000 ffff8881000418c0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888102c50000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888102c50080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888102c50100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff888102c50180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888102c50200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
CWE
CWE-787Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9