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"datePublished": "2025-09-18T13:33:38.842Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:13:53.982Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmlx5: fix possible ptp queue fifo use-after-free\n\nFifo indexes are not checked during pop operations and it leads to\npotential use-after-free when poping from empty queue. Such case was\npossible during re-sync action. WARN_ON_ONCE covers future cases.\n\nThere were out-of-order cqe spotted which lead to drain of the queue and\nuse-after-free because of lack of fifo pointers check. Special check and\ncounter are added to avoid resync operation if SKB could not exist in the\nfifo because of OOO cqe (skb_id must be between consumer and producer\nindex)."
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"value": "AV:L - The UAF is in the mlx5 PTP TX port-timestamp completion path (NAPI → mlx5e_ptp_handle_ts_cqe → fifo pop), reached only by locally originated skbs with SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP classified as PTP (UDP/319 or ethertype 0x88F7). A remote peer cannot set those TX flags or inject the DMA'd CQEs the handler consumes.\nAC:L - An unprivileged local attacker fully controls the traffic that fills the PTP skb fifo and can burst PTP TX to provoke lost/out-of-order wire CQEs and the subsequent empty-fifo resync drain; the enabling tx_port_ts setting is routine in PTP deployments, not a rare config beyond attacker influence.\nPR:L - setsockopt(SO_TIMESTAMPING) with SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE and sending UDP to port 319 need no capabilities, and mlx5e_use_ptpsq() gates only on skb tx_flags and packet type—so any unprivileged local user can drive the vulnerable path once the interface is in normal PTP TX-port-TS configuration.\nUI:N - The attacker’s own packet transmissions and the resulting TS-CQE/NAPI processing trigger the empty-fifo pop and UAF with no action required from another user or administrator.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel heap objects (sk_buffs and the driver’s skb fifo) in the same kernel security authority, with no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary crossed.\nC:H - Popping an empty/stale fifo slot yields a use-after-free of sk_buff: mlx5e_skb_cb_get_hwts()/skb_tstamp_tx() read and clone freed slab memory onto a socket error queue, enabling heap disclosure via spraying.\nI:H - The same UAF leads to napi_consume_skb() on a freed (or reallocated) sk_buff, causing double-free/refcount underflow and writes into freed skb->cb via mlx5e_skb_cb_hwtstamp_handler—heap corruption primitives suitable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Empty-fifo pops dereference NULL/stale pointers and double-free sk_buffs in softirq/NAPI context, producing kernel oopses/BUGs (and WARN_ON_ONCE under panic_on_warn) that take down the host."
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