Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Moderate 2026-08-22T00:00:00 kernel: bnxt_en: Disable EOP for TPA on all chips to prevent data corruption 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CWE-805

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bnxt_en: Disable EOP for TPA on all chips to prevent data corruption EOP (End of frame padding) on the AGG ring may cause overlapping of zero padding at the end of one segment with the next segment's data. If Relaxed Ordering (RO) is enabled, the zero padding may overwrite valid data in the next segment and corrupt the data. Older chips (P5 and older) do not automatically disable RO when EOP is enabled. On some ARM systems, data corruption was reported on 57508 (P5) chips with RO enabled. Always disable EOP on all chips on the AGG rings when TPA is enabled to fix the data corruption.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's bnxt_en driver. This vulnerability occurs when End of frame padding (EOP) on the AGG ring overlaps with subsequent data segments. On older network chips, if Relaxed Ordering (RO) is active, this overlap can cause valid data to be overwritten with zeros. This can lead to data corruption, impacting the integrity of information processed by the system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel-rt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74697 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74697 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026082235-CVE-2026-74697-aa0a@gregkh/T