CVE-2025-68770

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68770
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68770.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-68770
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-01-13T15:28:48Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:21Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
bnxt_en: Fix XDP_TX path
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bnxt_en: Fix XDP_TX path

For XDP_TX action in bnxt_rx_xdp(), clearing of the event flags is not correct. __bnxt_poll_work() -> bnxt_rx_pkt() -> bnxt_rx_xdp() may be looping within NAPI and some event flags may be set in earlier iterations. In particular, if BNXT_TX_EVENT is set earlier indicating some XDP_TX packets are ready and pending, it will be cleared if it is XDP_TX action again. Normally, we will set BNXT_TX_EVENT again when we successfully call __bnxt_xmit_xdp(). But if the TX ring has no more room, the flag will not be set. This will cause the TX producer to be ahead but the driver will not hit the TX doorbell.

For multi-buf XDP_TX, there is no need to clear the event flags and set BNXT_AGG_EVENT. The BNXT_AGG_EVENT flag should have been set earlier in bnxt_rx_pkt().

The visible symptom of this is that the RX ring associated with the TX XDP ring will eventually become empty and all packets will be dropped. Because this condition will cause the driver to not refill the RX ring seeing that the TX ring has forever pending XDP_TX packets.

The fix is to only clear BNXT_RX_EVENT when we have successfully called __bnxt_xmit_xdp().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68770.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
7f0a168b0441ef7fd6b46563efb2706c58ac2a4c
Fixed
4b83902a1e67ff327ab5c6c65021a03e72c081d6
Fixed
f17e0c1208485b24d61271bc1ddc8f2087e71561
Fixed
0373d5c387f24de749cc22e694a14b3a7c7eb515

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68770.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.8.0
Fixed
6.12.64
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68770.json"