# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63923"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:24.985Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:17:56.756Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63923"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63923.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63923"
title: "octeontx2-af: validate body pcifunc in rvu_mbox_handler_rep_event_notify"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocteontx2-af: validate body pcifunc in rvu_mbox_handler_rep_event_notify\n\nrvu_mbox_handler_rep_event_notify() in drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/\nocteontx2/af/rvu_rep.c queues a sender-controlled REP_EVENT_NOTIFY\nrequest body verbatim, and rvu_rep_up_notify() then forwards\nevent-\u003epcifunc (the nested body field, distinct from the\nAF-normalised header pcifunc) into rvu_get_pfvf(), rvu_get_pf() and\nthe AF-\u003ePF mailbox device index without any bounds check.\n\nA VF attached to a PF that has been put into switchdev\nrepresentor mode reaches this path: the VF mailbox handler\notx2_pfvf_mbox_handler() forwards every message id including\nMBOX_MSG_REP_EVENT_NOTIFY to AF without an allowlist, and the AF\ndispatcher rewrites only msg-\u003epcifunc, leaving struct\nrep_event::pcifunc attacker-controlled.  The sibling\nrvu_mbox_handler_esw_cfg() refuses requests whose header pcifunc\nis not rvu-\u003erep_pcifunc; this handler has no equivalent gate.\n\nAn out-of-range body pcifunc selects an &rvu-\u003epf[]/&rvu-\u003ehwvf[]\nelement past the allocated array and, for RVU_EVENT_MAC_ADDR_CHANGE,\nturns into a six-byte attacker-chosen OOB ether_addr_copy() target\ninside the queued worker; KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds write\nin rvu_rep_wq_handler.\n\nReject malformed requests at the handler entry by gating on\nis_pf_func_valid(), which is already the canonical PF/VF range check\nin this driver; expose it via rvu.h so callers in rvu_rep.c can use\nit instead of open-coding the same range arithmetic."
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