CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72060

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the TI ICSSG driver's icssg_ndo_get_stats64() calls emac_get_stat_by_name() without checking if the PA stats block is present. When pa_stats pointer is NULL, thousands of log entries are generated and counters rx_errors, rx_dropped, tx_dropped are corrupted. Added proper guard.

Risk Assessment

Risk of log flooding and false network statistics, which can hinder monitoring and troubleshooting.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds the PA stats presence check.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: icssg: guard PA stat lookups icssg_ndo_get_stats64() unconditionally calls emac_get_stat_by_name() with FW PA stat names regardless of whether the PA stats block is present on the hardware. emac_get_stat_by_name() already guards the PA stats lookup with `if (emac->prueth->pa_stats)`; when that pointer is NULL the lookup falls through to netdev_err() and returns -EINVAL. Because ndo_get_stats64 is polled regularly by the networking stack this produces thousands of log entries of the form: icssg-prueth icssg1-eth end0: Invalid stats FW_RX_ERROR A secondary consequence is that the int(-EINVAL) return value is implicitly widened to a near-ULLONG_MAX unsigned value when accumulated into the __u64 fields of rtnl_link_stats64, silently corrupting the rx_errors, rx_dropped and tx_dropped counters reported by `ip -s link`. Every other PA-aware code path in the driver is already guarded with the same `if (emac->prueth->pa_stats)` check. Apply the same guard here.

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