CVE-2026-43031

HIGH

net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xilinx: axienet: Fix BQL accounting for multi-BD TX packets When a TX packet spans multiple buffer descriptors (scatter-gather), axienet_free_tx_chain sums the per-BD actual length from descriptor status into a caller-provided accumulator. That sum is reset on each NAPI poll. If the BDs for a single packet complete across different polls, the earlier bytes are lost and never credited to BQL. This causes BQL to think bytes are permanently in-flight, eventually stalling the TX queue. The SKB pointer is stored only on the last BD of a packet. When that BD completes, use skb->len for the byte count instead of summing per-BD status lengths. This matches netdev_sent_queue(), which debits skb->len, and naturally survives across polls because no partial packet contributes to the accumulator.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.18.22 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.12 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 - 2a0323a913109b52bfc9f5ea7b92a1b249e07d3e
Linux/Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 - 3c3a6b9020c01fde7b22e8550105de0b59904f61
Linux/Linux c900e49d58eb32b192b6d200ace4ae3ab89779d4 - d1978d03e86785872871bff9c2623174b10740de
linux/linux_kernel 7.0 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 - 6.18.22
Published May 01, 2026
Tracked Since May 01, 2026