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CVE-2026-89596

HIGH 7.1

forcedeth: fix off-by-one when saving/restoring non-PCI config space

CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: forcedeth: fix off-by-one when saving/restoring non-PCI config space nv_suspend() and nv_resume() walk the non-PCI configuration space with for (i = 0; i <= np->register_size/sizeof(u32); i++) which runs one iteration too many. saved_config_space is declared as u32 saved_config_space[NV_PCI_REGSZ_MAX/4]; and NV_PCI_REGSZ_VER3 is equal to NV_PCI_REGSZ_MAX (0x604), so on a VER3 device register_size/sizeof(u32) is exactly the array length and the last iteration addresses one element past the end. The element it lands on is np->name_rx[0..3]: saved_config_space[] is followed immediately by char name_rx[IFNAMSIZ + 3], and char needs no padding. Nothing observable is corrupted by that, because nv_request_irq() rewrites name_rx with sprintf() before it is ever passed to request_irq(). The bug is the out-of-bounds access itself, which UBSAN reports and which CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y turns into a trap that aborts the running kernel code, plus an MMIO read and, on resume, an MMIO writel() to base + 0x604, one dword past the range the driver mapped: np->base = ioremap(addr, np->register_size); VER1 and VER2 devices stay inside the array, but they too get the stray read and the stray write one dword past their own window. Caught by UBSAN on an Apple Macmini3,1 (MCP79) during a deep S3 cycle. The splat below is trimmed: the build path in the file name, the CPU and taint lines, the Workqueue line, the "?" hint frames, and the frames below device_suspend are all cut. The kernel was tainted, with an out-of-tree nouveau and CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC; forcedeth itself was the stock module. UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c:6225:25 index 385 is out of range for type 'u32 [385]' Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x2b __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x54/0x59 __this_module+0xe398c/0xe9010 [forcedeth] pci_pm_suspend+0x80/0x170 dpm_run_callback+0x51/0x160 device_suspend+0x1a2/0x4a0 ... Both loops are hit. UBSAN reports each source location only once per module load (__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds() calls suppress_report(), which does test_and_set_bit(REPORTED_BIT, ...) on the struct source_location), so the two splats land in the first S3 cycle after the module is loaded and later cycles are silent even though the access still runs off the end every time. In that first cycle line 6225 is reported from pci_pm_suspend and line 6240 from pci_pm_resume. The same off-by-one was fixed in nv_get_regs() by commit ba9aa134287f ("forcedeth: fix buffer overflow") in 2012; these two loops were missed. The suspend and resume side was reported on LKML in September 2013 by Marc Weber, with the same analysis and the same one-character fix, but the patch was attached rather than sent inline and the thread ended there. Use < instead of <=, which saves and restores exactly register_size bytes.

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Published Sep 11, 2026
Last Updated Sep 14, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < effd589568b2c4399894a23000286210c60af6d7 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < 702aa4a44c87026b97b1da5c5ca80e1fa8a9875a 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < fc71c6c3d3e3bb17474dcd1162aea6783a452a64 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < c4d5953582463f45e48b14ef9815e5fb636f7e1f 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < 9379f8527ca60d92715c90b32f1b477de9ec32cb 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < 0c3f4544ff3873594c8af1b907b4ac4e6d5ce005 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < c4f196bfeedd71e56aba4b63bd8f919edb2f7056 1a1ca86158eee303af5270338695f90bc7ae02b3 < 9393f1d656a79693e0c123ff7bc7c5c0f708046d
Linux / Linux
2.6.27

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/effd589568b2c4399894a23000286210c60af6d7 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/702aa4a44c87026b97b1da5c5ca80e1fa8a9875a git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc71c6c3d3e3bb17474dcd1162aea6783a452a64 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4d5953582463f45e48b14ef9815e5fb636f7e1f git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9379f8527ca60d92715c90b32f1b477de9ec32cb git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3f4544ff3873594c8af1b907b4ac4e6d5ce005 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4f196bfeedd71e56aba4b63bd8f919edb2f7056 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9393f1d656a79693e0c123ff7bc7c5c0f708046d