Bug 2555255 (CVE-2026-98808) - CVE-2026-98808 kernel: net: systemport: Fix buffer overflow in bcm_sysport_get_stats()
Summary: CVE-2026-98808 kernel: net: systemport: Fix buffer overflow in bcm_sysport_ge...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98808
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 16:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 16:05:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: systemport: Fix buffer overflow in bcm_sysport_get_stats()

When running on SYSTEMPORT Lite, certain statistics are unsupported and
skipped during bcm_sysport_get_stats(). The variable 'j' tracks the
compacted index into the destination data buffer, whereas 'i' iterates
over all elements in bcm_sysport_gstrings_stats.

Because the buffer allocated by ethtool is sized only according to
bcm_sysport_get_sset_count(), storing values at data[i] instead of
data[j] writes past the allocated array bounds, leading to memory
corruption.

Fix this by writing to data[j] instead of data[i].


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