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CVE-2026-68293

7.1 high SSVC exploitation: none Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix MCIA register buffer overflow on 32 dword reads The MCIA register can return up to 32 dwords (128 bytes) when the device advertises the mcia_32dwords capability, but struct mlx5_ifc_mcia_reg_bits only defines dword_0..11, leaving room for just 12 dwords (48 bytes) of data. mlx5_query_mcia() clamps the read size to mlx5_mcia_max_bytes() and then memcpy()s that many bytes out of the register, potentially reading past the end of the 'out' buffer. On kernels built with FORTIFY_SOURCE this is caught as a buffer overflow while reading the module EEPROM via ethtool: detected buffer overflow in memcpy kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1048! RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0x13/0x20 Call Trace: mlx5_query_mcia.isra.0+0x200/0x210 [mlx5_core] mlx5_query_module_eeprom_by_page+0x4a/0xa0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_get_module_eeprom_by_page+0xbb/0x120 [mlx5_core] eeprom_prepare_data+0xf3/0x170 ethnl_default_doit+0xf1/0x3b0 Extend the mcia_reg layout to 32 dwords.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 6

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:43
  2. References+1 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
  3. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
  4. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:09
  5. CwesCWE-122NVD modified 2026-10-19 22:17
  6. First seenCVSS 7.1NVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 5