Linux Kernel up to 6.12.113/6.18.57/7.2.10 DMA Engine axienet_stop buffer overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.113/6.18.57/7.2.10. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function axienet_stop of the component DMA Engine. This manipulation causes buffer overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-99028. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.12.113/6.18.57/7.2.10 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function axienet_stop of the component DMA Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop In the dmaengine path the driver pre-submits RX buffers and holds in-flight TX buffers whose SKBs are DMA-mapped by the driver and freed only in the completion callbacks. On ndo_stop() dmaengine_terminate_sync() aborts these descriptors without running their callbacks, and the driver then frees only the ring shells, leaking every SKB still owned by the engine and its DMA mapping on each ifdown. With 128 RX buffers pre-posted per channel, the mapping leak can eventually exhaust a limited IOMMU aperture. Clear the slot's skb in the TX and RX callbacks so a non-NULL skb marks a slot that still owns a live, DMA-mapped buffer, and on stop unmap and free every such buffer. axienet_dma_rx_cb() runs from the DMA tasklet and re-arms the RX ring on each completion, so it can race axienet_stop(): a completion may submit a fresh buffer after dmaengine_terminate_sync() has returned, leaving the channel armed with a buffer the teardown then frees while the engine may still write into it (dma_release_channel() does not stop it either). Add a lock that axienet_dma_rx_cb() holds across the @stopping check and the resubmit, and axienet_stop() holds to set @stopping before terminating. Once @stopping is set no callback can arm a new buffer, and any armed just before is aborted by the terminate, so teardown only frees buffers the engine no longer owns.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-99028 since 09/25/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/23/2026).

Upgrading to version 6.12.114, 6.18.58 or 7.2.11 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c/eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af/5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58/bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.12.113
• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.18.2
• 6.18.3
• 6.18.4
• 6.18.5
• 6.18.6
• 6.18.7
• 6.18.8
• 6.18.9
• 6.18.10
• 6.18.11
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• 6.18.53
• 6.18.54
• 6.18.55
• 6.18.56
• 6.18.57
• 7.2.0
• 7.2.1
• 7.2.2
• 7.2.3
• 7.2.4
• 7.2.5
• 7.2.6
• 7.2.7
• 7.2.8
• 7.2.9
• 7.2.10

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

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VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Buffer overflow
CWE: CWE-120 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Kernel 6.12.114/6.18.58/7.2.11
Patch: 079396129da5e7cb40ca0920aa1b9525bef6097c/eececf7c3a679d9c08175ad6bacbc8c31848f5af/5e5cf3ad7c099ff86ea9e422cddb25a2e5317b58/bcf2573a68a808a5b54cadafa72b6672e662c2bf

Timelineinfo

09/25/2026 CVE reserved
10/23/2026 +28 days Advisory disclosed
10/23/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/23/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: kernel.org

Advisory: git.kernel.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-99028 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-99028
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-425857

Entryinfo

Created: 10/23/2026 15:42
Changes: 10/23/2026 15:42 (59)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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