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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-68301

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/16/2025 11:16:09 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path

The atlantic driver can receive packets with more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17)
fragments when handling large multi-descriptor packets. This causes an
out-of-bounds write in skb_add_rx_frag_netmem() leading to kernel panic.

The issue occurs because the driver doesn't check the total number of
fragments before calling skb_add_rx_frag(). When a packet requires more
than MAX_SKB_FRAGS fragments, the fragment index exceeds the array bounds.

Fix by assuming there will be an extra frag if buff->len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE,
then all fragments are accounted for. And reusing the existing check to
prevent the overflow earlier in the code path.

This crash occurred in production with an Aquantia AQC113 10G NIC.

Stack trace from production environment:
```
RIP: 0010:skb_add_rx_frag_netmem+0x29/0xd0
Code: 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 41 89
ca 48 89 d7 48 63 ce 8b 90 c0 00 00 00 48 c1 e1 04 48 01 ca 48 03 90
c8 00 00 00 <48> 89 7a 30 44 89 52 3c 44 89 42 38 40 f6 c7 01 75 74 48
89 fa 83
RSP: 0018:ffffa9bec02a8d50 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffff925b22e80a00 RBX: ffff925ad38d2700 RCX:
fffffffe0a0c8000
RDX: ffff9258ea95bac0 RSI: ffff925ae0a0c800 RDI:
0000000000037a40
RBP: 0000000000000024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09:
0000000000000021
R10: 0000000000000848 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
ffffa9bec02a8e24
R13: ffff925ad8615570 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
ffff925b22e80a00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000)
GS:ffff925e47880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff9258ea95baf0 CR3: 0000000166022004 CR4:
0000000000f72ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
aq_ring_rx_clean+0x175/0xe60 [atlantic]
? aq_ring_rx_clean+0x14d/0xe60 [atlantic]
? aq_ring_tx_clean+0xdf/0x190 [atlantic]
? kmem_cache_free+0x348/0x450
? aq_vec_poll+0x81/0x1d0 [atlantic]
? __napi_poll+0x28/0x1c0
? net_rx_action+0x337/0x420
```

Changes in v4:
- Add Fixes: tag to satisfy patch validation requirements.

Changes in v3:
- Fix by assuming there will be an extra frag if buff->len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE,
  then all fragments are accounted for.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34147477eeab24077fcfe9649e282849347d760c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3be37c3c96b16462394fcb8e15e757c691377038
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd2105e1b7e041cc24be151c9a31a14d5fc50ab
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d6051ea1b0417ae2f06a8440d22e48fbc8f8997
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ffcb7b890f61541201461580bb6622ace405aec
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e47cd1fd631a21bf5a630cebefec6c8fc381cd
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c4d5135b04ea100988e2458c98f2d8564cda16