CVE-2026-90145EPSS p5.1%
CVE-2026-90145CVE-2026-90145
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hinic3: Fix skb linearization mismatch and drop skb when skb_checksum_help() failed
Previously, hinic3_send_one_skb() cached the skb fragment count before
calling hinic3_tx_offload(). If hinic3_tx_csum() falls back to
skb_checksum_help() for unsupported tunnel packets, the skb may be
linearized. Continuing to build the TX descriptor with the stale
fragment count leads to a descriptor mismatch, which can trigger
out-of-bounds DMA reads or IOMMU faults.
Furthermore, the old code ignored the return value of skb_checksum_help(),
transmitting corrupted packets with incomplete checksums upon failure.
Fix this by:
1. Moving the hinic3_tx_offload() call before calculating 'num_sge' to
ensure the correct fragment count is used if the SKB is linearized.
2. Propagating skb_checksum_help() errors and returning
HINIC3_TX_OFFLOAD_INVALID to properly drop the skb.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.16% probability of exploitation · percentile 5.1% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-18 |