CVE-2026-97573

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97573
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97573.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-97573
Downstream
Published
2026-09-25T10:21:57Z
Modified
2026-09-26T03:48:29Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
bnxt_en: Handle buffer allocation failure in bnxt_rx_ring_reset()
Details

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

bnxt_en: Handle buffer allocation failure in bnxt_rx_ring_reset()

bnxt_rx_ring_reset() frees the ring buffers and then reallocates them, ignoring the result.

bnxt_alloc_one_rx_ring() can fail in bnxt_alloc_one_tpa_info_data(), which returns -ENOMEM on the first failed allocation and leaves the remaining rxr->rx_tpa[] entries zeroed.

The error isn't propagated up, so the loop in bnxt_rx_ring_reset continues and at the end the code re-enables TPA with partially unallocated rx_tpa array.

This means that when the agg_id from hardware is mapped to a SW index in rxr->rx_tpa[], an uninitialized slot can be chosen which would hand a zero DMA address to the device.

Fix this by falling back to a global reset, which is what the existing code already does when other functions fail, but unlike the other failure cases this particular failure has to return because TPA can't be re-enabled since the allocation failed.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/97xxx/CVE-2026-97573.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
8fbf58e17dce8f250dda9ad6b0a49b3041f0af14
Fixed
1a3670b6a6b5679fe56c5890157b344f091e64f8
Fixed
4a17c73c83798c2fa9c7920ad5a98803adce3e01
Fixed
8b2fd5c0aeda935294159206af9d6179282d425a
Fixed
961e2a17c5e3559b3f8654d2daabdd25a42e770a

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97573.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.10.0
Fixed
6.12.111
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97573.json"