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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-99081" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:23:28.347Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:23:28.347Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-99081" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99081.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99081" title: "bnxt_en: fix DMA mapping length for padded small packets" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: fix DMA mapping length for padded small packets\n\nStefan Fleischmann reported Intel IOMMU DMA Read faults on BCM57412\nNetXtreme-E NICs when transmitting packets on VLAN/macvlan interfaces:\n\n DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [18:00.0] fault addr 0xfc499000\n [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set\n bnxt_en 0000:18:00.0 eno1np0: Abandoning msg {0xb4 0x41a} len: 0 due to firmware status: 0x2000001\n ...\n NETDEV WATCHDOG: eno1np0 (bnxt_en): transmit queue 0 timed out\n\nThe fault address (0xfc499000) is on an exact 4KB page boundary,\npointing to a DMA read buffer overrun.\n\nIn bnxt_start_xmit(), packets smaller than BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE (52 bytes),\nsuch as 42-byte untagged ARP frames, are padded:\n\n if (length \u003c BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE) {\n pad = BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE - length;\n if (skb_pad(skb, pad))\n goto tx_kick_pending;\n length = BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE;\n }\n\n mapping = dma_map_single(&pdev-\u003edev, skb-\u003edata, len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);\n ...\n dma_unmap_len_set(tx_buf, len, len);\n\nHowever, 'len' was initialized earlier to skb_headlen(skb) (e.g. 42 bytes)\nand is left unadjusted after padding. Consequently, dma_map_single() and\ndma_unmap_len_set() map and track only 42 bytes.\n\nLater, the hardware TX buffer descriptor is programmed with the padded length:\n\n txbd-\u003etx_bd_len_flags_type =\n cpu_to_le32(((len + pad) \u003c\u003c TX_BD_LEN_SHIFT) | flags |\n TX_BD_FLAGS_PACKET_END);\n\nThe NIC DMA engine is thus instructed to read 52 bytes from a region where\nonly 42 bytes were DMA-mapped. If skb-\u003edata ends near the boundary of a 4KB\npage (within 'pad' bytes of the next page), the hardware DMA read overruns\ninto the unmapped adjacent page, triggering an IOMMU fault.\n\nThis issue was exposed after commit 447cbe95ebb9 (\"vlan: fix skb_under_panic\nand races when toggling HW VLAN offload\") because reserving extra VLAN\nheadroom rounded LL_RESERVED_SPACE from 48 up to 64 bytes, shifting skb-\u003edata\noffsets and potentially causing small frames to land right against page\nboundaries.\n\nFix this by using skb_put_padto(skb, BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE) in\nbnxt_start_xmit(), before skb_shinfo(skb)-\u003enr_frags is sampled,\nbecause padding might linearize the skb.\nThis ensures skb-\u003elen and skb_headlen(skb) reflect the padded size so\nthat dma_map_single() maps the full buffer and the descriptor length is\nconsistent. This also removes the temporary 'pad' variable and masking logic.\n\nThe padding is done after the SW USO branch, otherwise\nbnxt_sw_udp_gso_xmit() would account the padding as UDP payload\nand send it in extra segments.\n\nNote that SW USO segments are still not padded: with IPv4, a segment\ncarrying less than 10 bytes of UDP payload (small gso_size, or a short\nlast segment) is sent as a frame shorter than BNXT_MIN_PKT_SIZE.\nThis is a separate issue, left for a followup patch." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c0c050c58d840994ba842ad1c338a98e7c12b764","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf8530a25ae92c4493e2f22981ecb46f0b66f4c8"},{"version":"c0c050c58d840994ba842ad1c338a98e7c12b764","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2956aca14dd2977cd08bd2ccafae3beb8b84b268"},{"version":"c0c050c58d840994ba842ad1c338a98e7c12b764","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbd977e513971ccb4f0762a7f59eac500e474f89"},{"version":"c0c050c58d840994ba842ad1c338a98e7c12b764","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5213f65a9667d3dd85db2e6df8f2e0516290db34"},{"version":"c0c050c58d840994ba842ad1c338a98e7c12b764","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a51d233ccd4889aadb71dace863525cc2b00271e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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