CVE-2026-68128 (GCVE-0-2026-68128)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:58 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:59
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Title
ice: reject out-of-range ptype in ice_parser_profile_init
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: reject out-of-range ptype in ice_parser_profile_init set_bit(rslt->ptype, prof->ptypes) operates on a DECLARE_BITMAP of ICE_FLOW_PTYPE_MAX (1024) bits. Nothing prevents a malicious VF from providing ptype >= 1024 through VIRTCHNL, resulting in a write past the end of the bitmap and a kernel page fault. Reproduced with a custom kernel module injecting a crafted VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_RSS_CFG on E810-C QSFP (8086:1592), FW 4.91 0x800214af 1.3909.0, ICE COMMS DDP 1.3.53.0, kernel 7.1.0-rc1. crash_parser: ice_parser_profile_init @ ffffffffc0d61b60 crash_parser: setting ptype=0xffff (max valid=1023) crash_parser: calling ice_parser_profile_init -- expect OOB crash! BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 56 UID: 0 PID: 165011 Comm: insmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S U OE 7.1.0-rc1 #1 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600BPB/S2600BPB RIP: 0010:ice_parser_profile_init+0x2d/0x1d0 [ice] Call Trace: <TASK> ? __pfx_ice_parser_profile_init+0x10/0x10 [ice] crash_init+0x127/0xff0 [crash_parser] do_one_initcall+0x45/0x310 do_init_module+0x64/0x270 init_module_from_file+0xcc/0xf0 idempotent_init_module+0x17b/0x280 __x64_sys_finit_module+0x6e/0xe0 Bail out early with -EINVAL when ptype is out of range.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e312b3a1e2092f612914dbc4fa5d96b4d8ff94ef , < fe2f8d5a77adea38e889fe3d6cde1b76d4a635bf (git)
Affected: e312b3a1e2092f612914dbc4fa5d96b4d8ff94ef , < 5e496f2b615cec4b45537cfb5b54f36a51dc8753 (git)
Affected: e312b3a1e2092f612914dbc4fa5d96b4d8ff94ef , < 33cc15aaf2491166dddc018b24b3b7db53ec01b2 (git)
Affected: e312b3a1e2092f612914dbc4fa5d96b4d8ff94ef , < 59abb87159c53605c063f6e2ceb215b5eba43ee6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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