CVE-2025-71137

Updated on 14 Jan 2026

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

octeontx2-pf: fix “UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds error”

This patch ensures that the RX ring size (rx_pending) is not set below the permitted length. This avoids UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds errors when users passes small or zero ring sizes via ethtool -G.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+2 more)

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

octeontx2-pf: fix “UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds error”

This patch ensures that the RX ring size (rx_pending) is not set below the permitted length. This avoids UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds errors when users passes small or zero ring sizes via ethtool -G.

Fixes