Bug 2436763 (CVE-2026-23070)

Summary:	CVE-2026-23070 kernel: Octeontx2-af: Add proper checks for fwdata
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-04 17:02:11 UTC

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

Octeontx2-af: Add proper checks for fwdata

firmware populates MAC address, link modes (supported, advertised)
and EEPROM data in shared firmware structure which kernel access
via MAC block(CGX/RPM).

Accessing fwdata, on boards booted with out MAC block leading to
kernel panics.

Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
[   10.460721] Modules linked in:
[   10.463779] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 174 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc5-00154-g76ec646abdf7-dirty #3 PREEMPT
[   10.474045] Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN98XX board (DT)
[   10.479793] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
[   10.484159] pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[   10.491124] pc : rvu_sdp_init+0x18/0x114
[   10.495051] lr : rvu_probe+0xe58/0x1d18

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2026-02-05 00:57:48 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026020418-CVE-2026-23070-2fcd@gregkh/T