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CVE-2026-68330

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer airoha_npu_send_msg() always maps the mailbox buffer with DMA_TO_DEVICE, but some callers expect the NPU to write response data back into the same buffer: - airoha_npu_wlan_msg_get() (NPU_OP_GET): NPU writes response into the buffer, then the caller reads it via memcpy() - airoha_npu_ppe_stats_setup() (NPU_OP_SET): NPU writes back npu_stats_addr field in the response On non-cache-coherent architectures like EN7581 (Cortex-A53 without hardware cache coherency for NPU DMA), DMA_TO_DEVICE unmap is a no-op — it does not invalidate the CPU cache. If the NPU-written cache line is still present in the CPU cache when the caller reads the buffer, the CPU observes stale data instead of the NPU response. This is a timing-sensitive bug: small mailbox buffers (~24 bytes) typically fit in a single cache line and may survive in the cache until the caller reads them, producing silent data corruption rather than a crash. The bug is more likely to trigger when the caller reads the response immediately after dma_unmap_single() without intervening cache-evicting operations. Fix by using DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL for both map and unmap, which ensures dma_unmap_single() invalidates the CPU cache on non-coherent systems. The mailbox buffers are small so there is no performance concern.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

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Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428faffectedgit76fc5604308a109bf5838c2a0a0eb3ac6819f1eaUnavailableNone listed
c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428faffectedgit4c4d866a64f36718cbcdf20add372a599dd44311UnavailableNone listed
c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428faffectedgit6f884eb87a79e0c482baef2ad96c96b81d024235UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.16affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.16UnavailableNone listed
6.18.42unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.6unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed