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HIGH Introduced in 2.6.27

forcedeth ConfigSpace OOB

CVE-2026-89596

CVSS 7.1 / 10.0 NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

KernelScan AI4.5MEDIUM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: forcedeth: fix off-by-one when saving/restoring non-PCI config space nv_suspend() and nv_resume() walk the non-PCI configuration space with for (i = 0; i <= np->register_size/sizeof(u32); i++) which runs one iteration too many. saved_config_space is declared as u32 saved_config_space[NV_PCI_REGSZ_MAX/4]; and NV_PCI_REGSZ_VER3 is equal to NV_PCI_REGSZ_MAX (0x604), so on a VER3 device register_size/sizeof(u32) is exactly the array length and the last iteration addresses one element past the end. The element it lands on is np->name_rx[0..3]: saved_config_space[] is followed immediately by char name_rx[IFNAMSIZ + 3], and char needs no padding. Nothing observable is corrupted by that, because nv_request_irq() rewrites name_rx with sprintf() before it is ever passed to request_irq(). The bug is the out-of-bounds access itself, which UBSAN reports and which CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y turns into a trap that aborts the running kernel code, plus an MMIO read and, on resume, an MMIO writel() to base + 0x604, one dword past the range the driver mapped: np->base = ioremap(addr, np->register_size); VER1 and VER2 devices stay inside the array, but they too get the stray read and the stray write one dword past their own window. Caught by UBSAN on an Apple Macmini3,1 (MCP79) during a deep S3 cycle. The splat below is trimmed: the build path in the file name, the CPU and taint lines, the Workqueue line, the "?" hint frames, and the frames below device_suspend are all cut. The kernel was tainted, with an out-of-tree nouveau and CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC; forcedeth itself was the stock module. UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c:6225:25 index 385 is out of range for type 'u32 [385]' Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x2b __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x54/0x59 __this_module+0xe398c/0xe9010 [forcedeth] pci_pm_suspend+0x80/0x170 dpm_run_callback+0x51/0x160 device_suspend+0x1a2/0x4a0 ... Both loops are hit. UBSAN reports each source location only once per module load (__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds() calls suppress_report(), which does test_and_set_bit(REPORTED_BIT, ...) on the struct source_location), so the two splats land in the first S3 cycle after the module is loaded and later cycles are silent even though the access still runs off the end every time. In that first cycle line 6225 is reported from pci_pm_suspend and line 6240 from pci_pm_resume. The same off-by-one was fixed in nv_get_regs() by commit ba9aa134287f ("forcedeth: fix buffer overflow") in 2012; these two loops were missed. The suspend and resume side was reported on LKML in September 2013 by Marc Weber, with the same analysis and the same one-character fix, but the patch was attached rather than sent inline and the thread ended there. Use < instead of <=, which saves and restores exactly register_size bytes.

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Engine v0.6.0

Risk summary

Systems with NVIDIA nForce (forcedeth) network hardware are affected when a system suspend/resume cycle is performed. The off-by-one loop reads and writes one element past the configuration-space save array and accesses MMIO one dword past the mapped register region. With UBSAN trapping enabled this aborts the kernel; without it, the stray MMIO access may destabilize the device. Only a privileged local actor who can trigger power-state transitions can reach this path.

Affecteddrivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c (forcedeth network driver)

Vulnerability analysis

The suspend and resume routines in the forcedeth driver save and restore the device's non-PCI configuration space using a loop that iterates one time too many, reading and writing past the end of the save buffer and accessing device MMIO one dword beyond the mapped register window. On resume the out-of-bounds array write lands on an adjacent field that is later overwritten, so no persistent data corruption is observable, but the stray MMIO access and the UBSAN-detected array overrun can abort the kernel or destabilize the hardware. The fix changes the loop comparison so it saves and restores exactly the intended number of registers. This path is reachable only on systems with NVIDIA nForce networking hardware and only when a privileged local actor initiates a system suspend or resume cycle.

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BranchIntroducedFixed inPatch commit
5.152.6.275.15.221702aa4a44c87
6.12.6.276.1.188fc71c6c3d3e3
6.182.6.276.18.500c3f4544ff38
6.122.6.276.12.1099379f8527ca6
mainline2.6.277.3-rc19393f1d656a7
6.62.6.276.6.157c4d595358246
7.22.6.277.2.4c4f196bfeedd
5.102.6.275.10.270effd589568b2
cip/6.122.6.276.12.111-cip329379f8527ca6