CVE-2026-80629
Received Received - Intake

Buffer Overflow in Linux Kernel OcteonTX2 AF NPC Driver

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-80629, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-08-28

Last updated on: 2026-08-28

Assigner: kernel.org

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: npc: Fix size of entry2cntr_map KASAN prints below splat. This is caused by allocating counter for reserved mcam entry for cpt 2nd pass entry. But mcam->entry2cntr_map is not allocated for reserved entries. BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in npc_map_mcam_entry_and_cntr+0xb0/0x1a0 Write of size 2 at addr ffff0001033e7ffe by task kworker/0:1/14 CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.1.67 #1 Hardware name: Marvell CN106XX board (DT) Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn Call trace: dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe4/0xf0 show_stack+0x18/0x30 dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb4 print_report+0x154/0x458 kasan_report+0xb8/0x194 __asan_store2+0x7c/0xa0 npc_map_mcam_entry_and_cntr+0xb0/0x1a0 rvu_mbox_handler_npc_mcam_write_entry+0x268/0x280 npc_install_flow+0x840/0xfe0 rvu_npc_install_cpt_pass2_entry+0x138/0x190 rvu_nix_init+0x148c/0x2880 rvu_probe+0x1800/0x30b0 local_pci_probe+0x78/0xe0 work_for_cpu_fn+0x30/0x50 process_one_work+0x4cc/0x97c worker_thread+0x360/0x630 kthread+0x1a0/0x1b0 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

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Published
2026-08-28
Last Modified
2026-08-28
Generated
2026-08-28
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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marvell linux_kernel 6.1.67

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