CVE-2026-64540

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64540

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usbnet: gl620a: fix out-of-bounds read in genelink_rx_fixup()

genelink_rx_fixup() splits an aggregated RX frame into its individual

packets, using a per-packet length taken from device-supplied data. That

length is only bounded by GL_MAX_PACKET_LEN (1514); it is never compared

against how many bytes were actually received.

A malicious GeneLink (GL620A) device can therefore send a short URB whose

header claims packet_count > 1 and a first packet of up to 1514 bytes.

skb_put_data(gl_skb, packet->packet_data, size);

then copies past the end of the receive buffer and hands the adjacent slab

contents up the network stack, an out-of-bounds read that leaks kernel heap.

No privilege is required: the path runs in the usbnet RX softirq as soon as

the interface is up.

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in genelink_rx_fixup (drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)

Read of size 1514 at addr ffff888011309708 by task ksoftirqd/0/14

Call Trace:

...

__asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)

genelink_rx_fixup (include/linux/skbuff.h:2814 drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c:112)

usbnet_bh (drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:572 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1589)

process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)

bh_worker (kernel/workqueue.c:3405)

tasklet_action (kernel/softirq.c:965)

handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)

run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1076)

...

skb_pull() already verifies that the requested length fits the buffer and

returns NULL otherwise. Move it ahead of the copy and check its result, so

a packet that overruns the received data is rejected before it is read.

Well-formed frames, whose packets are fully present, are unaffected. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References