In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iavf: fix off-by-one issues in iavfconfigrss_reg()
There are off-by-one bugs when configuring RSS hash key and lookup table, causing out-of-bounds reads to memory [1] and out-of-bounds writes to device registers.
Before commit 43a3d9ba34c9 ("i40evf: Allow PF driver to configure RSS"), the loop upper bounds were: i <= I40EVFQF{HKEY,HLUT}MAXINDEX which is safe since the value is the last valid index.
That commit changed the bounds to:
i <= adapter->rss{key,lut}size / 4
where rss_{key,lut}_size / 4 is the number of dwords, so the last
valid index is (rss_{key,lut}_size / 4) - 1. Therefore, using <=
accesses one element past the end.
Fix the issues by using < instead of <=, ensuring we do not exceed
the bounds.
[1] KASAN splat about rsskeysize off-by-one BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavfconfigrss+0x619/0x800 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888102c50134 by task kworker/u8:6/63
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2-enjuk-tnguy-00378-g3005f5b77652-dirty #156 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: iavf iavfwatchdogtask Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstacklvl+0x6f/0xb0 printreport+0x170/0x4f3 kasanreport+0xe1/0x1a0 iavfconfigrss+0x619/0x800 iavfwatchdogtask+0x2be7/0x3230 processonework+0x7fd/0x1420 workerthread+0x4d1/0xd40 kthread+0x344/0x660 retfromfork+0x249/0x320 retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>
Allocated by task 63: kasansavestack+0x30/0x50 kasansavetrack+0x14/0x30 _kasankmalloc+0x7f/0x90 _kmallocnoprof+0x246/0x6f0 iavfwatchdogtask+0x28fc/0x3230 processonework+0x7fd/0x1420 workerthread+0x4d1/0xd40 kthread+0x344/0x660 retfromfork+0x249/0x320 retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888102c50100 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 52-byte region [ffff888102c50100, ffff888102c50134)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102c50 flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0200000000000000 ffff8881000418c0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888102c50000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888102c50080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888102c50100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ^ ffff888102c50180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff888102c50200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/71xxx/CVE-2025-71087.json",
"cna_assigner": "Linux"
}