CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64522

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the mlx5e driver in the Linux kernel, during handling of temporary SAs (acquire SA) in IPsec, the eswitch mode block was skipped, but the success label called unblock, causing an underflow of the num_block_mode counter.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience instability or errors in IPsec operation on Mellanox ConnectX-5 and newer network cards.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that returns directly after installing the acquire SA handle, without calling eswitch unblock.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix eswitch mode block underflow on IPsec acquire SA mlx5e_xfrm_add_state() handles acquire-flow temporary SAs by allocating software state and skipping hardware offload setup. That path jumps to the common success label before taking the eswitch mode block. After tunnel-mode validation was moved earlier, the common success label unconditionally calls mlx5_eswitch_unblock_mode(). For acquire SAs, this decrements esw->offloads.num_block_mode without a matching increment. Return directly after installing the acquire SA offload handle, so only the paths that successfully called mlx5_eswitch_block_mode() call the matching unblock.

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