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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64121" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:19.745Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:19.745Z" 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-2026-64121" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64121.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64121" title: "net: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ifb: report ethtool stats over num_tx_queues\n\nifb_dev_init() allocates dp-\u003etx_private to dev-\u003enum_tx_queues\nentries via kzalloc_objs(*txp, dev-\u003enum_tx_queues). Both IFB\nper-queue RX and TX stats live in those entries: ifb_xmit() updates\ntxp-\u003erx_stats using the skb queue mapping, ifb_ri_tasklet() updates\ntxp-\u003etx_stats, and ifb_stats64() aggregates both over\ndev-\u003enum_tx_queues.\n\nThe ethtool stats callbacks instead size and walk the per-queue\nstats with dev-\u003ereal_num_rx_queues and dev-\u003ereal_num_tx_queues. With\nan asymmetric device where the RX queue count exceeds the TX queue\ncount, for example:\n\n ip link add name ifb10 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 8 type ifb\n ethtool -S ifb10\n\nifb_get_ethtool_stats() indexes past the tx_private allocation and\ncopies adjacent slab data through ETHTOOL_GSTATS.\n\nUse dev-\u003enum_tx_queues consistently for the stats strings, the\nstats count, and the stats data walks. This reports one RX stats\ngroup and one TX stats group for each backing ifb_q_private entry,\nwhich is the queue set IFB can actually populate.\n\nReproduced under UML+KASAN at v7.1-rc2:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae\n Read of size 8 at addr 0000000062dbd228 by task ethtool/36\n ifb_fill_stats_data+0x3c/0xae\n ifb_get_ethtool_stats+0xc0/0x129\n __dev_ethtool+0x1ca5/0x363c\n dev_ethtool+0x123/0x1b3\n dev_ioctl+0x56c/0x744\n sock_do_ioctl+0x15f/0x1b2\n sock_ioctl+0x4d5/0x50a\n sys_ioctl+0xd8b/0xde9\n\nWith the patch applied, the same UML+KASAN repro is silent and\nethtool -S ifb10 reports only the stats backed by the single\nallocated tx_private entry." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6afdb8113cb007f9332f59a9b7fd45731b8a9de5"},{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16bd798cb6d8337d7c3eea1adc412f31b5181d5b"},{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"301a554e458e2f5ec47f2c336a7cb03b877f9fd6"},{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8a5a76b4a683043c6eff2a060bcaa17f9316ad5"},{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2638e1773904d7aa8f24c6e7fda2ed7d69df6fa4"},{"version":"a21ee5b2fcb8d6d3973446c5039e966c4cfe40d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5db89c99566fc4728cc92e941d8e1975711e24b5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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