CVE-2026-64034 (GCVE-0-2026-64034)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: mana: Fix TOCTOU double-fetch of hwc_msg_id from DMA buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mana: Fix TOCTOU double-fetch of hwc_msg_id from DMA buffer
In mana_hwc_rx_event_handler(), resp->response.hwc_msg_id is read from
DMA-coherent memory and bounds-checked, then mana_hwc_handle_resp()
re-reads the same field from the same DMA buffer for test_bit() and
pointer arithmetic.
DMA-coherent memory is mapped uncacheable on x86 and is shared,
unencrypted, in Confidential VMs (SEV-SNP/TDX), so each load goes
directly to host-visible memory. A H/W can modify the value
between the check and the use, bypassing the bounds validation.
Fix this by reading hwc_msg_id exactly once using READ_ONCE() into a
stack-local variable in mana_hwc_rx_event_handler(), and passing the
validated value as a parameter to mana_hwc_handle_resp().
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < a201c66edf2ebc6cfdc3813a889ba20fecebfae3
(git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 70ad2dff8d052a85dfef15715b531f38a29108cf (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 566f42fb67a7ebfed6650e407e5b72e6b3e83bf7 (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 6180a06bbc99fd9114b8db4be6c4d46e40f046ef (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 09ec063d87c2dd3fa6f3561361a017bd882e9f37 (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 3c4db56ccd13dd020fbf43afabaee74a40ec75e4 (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 35f0f0a2536a4d604b4dbad92c85c4a8fdebb870 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.142 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.92 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.34 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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