CVE-2026-31494
Published: April 22, 2026· Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Official Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macb: use the current queue number for stats
There's a potential mismatch between the memory reserved for statistics
and the amount of memory written.
gem_get_sset_count() correctly computes the number of stats based on the
active queues, whereas gem_get_ethtool_stats() indiscriminately copies
data using the maximum number of queues, and in the case the number of
active queues is less than MACB_MAX_QUEUES, this results in a OOB write
as observed in the KASAN splat.
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BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in gem_get_ethtool_stats+0x54/0x78
[macb]
Write of size 760 at addr ffff80008080b000 by task ethtool/1027
CPU: [...]
Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: raspberrypi rpi/rpi, BIOS 2025.10 10/01/2025
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8
print_report+0x384/0x5e0
kasan_report+0xa0/0xf0
kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190
__asan_memcpy+0x54/0x98
gem_get_ethtool_stats+0x54/0x78 [macb
926c13f3af83b0c6fe64badb21ec87d5e93fcf65]
dev_ethtool+0x1220/0x38c0
dev_ioctl+0x4ac/0xca8
sock_do_ioctl+0x170/0x1d8
sock_ioctl+0x484/0x5d8
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x12c/0x1b8
invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
el0_svc+0x40/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8
The buggy address belongs to a 1-page vmalloc region starting at
0xffff80008080b000 allocated at dev_ethtool+0x11f0/0x38c0
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0xffff00000a333000 pfn:0xa333
flags: 0x7fffc000000000(node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
raw: 007fffc000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: ffff00000a333000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff80008080b080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff80008080b100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff80008080b180: 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffff80008080b200: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffff80008080b280: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
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Fix it by making sure the copied size only considers the active number of
queues.
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-31494 requires local access, meaning attackers must already have a foothold on the target system.
Exploitation requires low privileges, which limits the exposure to scenarios where an attacker has already gained initial access.
A successful exploit results in complete confidentiality breach (data exposure), full integrity compromise (data manipulation), availability disruption (denial of service), with a CVSS base score of 7.8.
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Recommended Actions
- →Apply vendor patches immediately
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- →Review IDS/IPS signatures for exploitation attempts