Critical severity · published Jul 19, 2026
CVE-2026-64125
net: bcmgenet: keep RBUF EEE/PM disabled
9.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: keep RBUF EEE/PM disabled Setting RBUF_EEE_EN | RBUF_PM_EN in RBUF_ENERGY_CTRL breaks the RX path on GENET hardware once MAC EEE becomes active. RX traffic stops flowing while the link stays up and the usual descriptor/RX error counters remain quiet. In that state the MAC still accepts frames (rbuf_ovflow_cnt keeps climbing) but RBUF no longer forwards them to DMA, so rx_packets is no longer incremented at the netdev level. On some boards the corruption ends up as a paging fault in skb_release_data via bcmgenet_rx_poll on an LPI exit. Reproduced on Pi 4B (BCM2711 + BCM54213PE) and confirmed by Florian Fainelli on an internal Broadcom 4908-family board with the same crash signature. RBUF_PM_EN is not publicly documented. This shows up more often now that phy_support_eee() enables EEE by default, but it also affects older kernels as soon as TX LPI is turned on via ethtool, so it is not specific to recent changes. Always clear RBUF_EEE_EN | RBUF_PM_EN in bcmgenet_eee_enable_set so the bits stay off across resets. UMAC and TBUF setup is left alone so TX-side EEE keeps working.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.19 before 5.10.258; 5.11 before 5.15.209; 5.16 before 6.1.175; 6.2 before 6.6.142; 6.7 before 6.12.92; 6.13 before 6.18.34; +5 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before 2040eb83f6ada148fb32dd98b943a498005d79f2; 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before f2782ddac82c70df313012da5f71f1f06b5553ca; 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before b579f3a73da7a7e74213558f4cc3d865c30aaa78; 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before 289499907399c5a9f2ed82cb34df49112bb8488f; 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before a212fc08f5c48a16a94092bf0a9a8b7cf4483b11; 6ef398ea60d931b97d69ed080bd0bd00fac38ec6 before 3d4ef05266ab16d8ef7dd21658a557801eb78704; +3 more · source: vendor