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CVE-2025-21800

kernel: net/mlx5: HWS, fix definer's HWS_SET32 macro for negative offset

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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Published · February 27, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

net/mlx5: HWS, fix definer's HWS_SET32 macro for negative offset

When bit offset for HWS_SET32 macro is negative, UBSAN complains about the shift-out-of-bounds:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/definer.c:177:2 shift exponent -8 is negative

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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