CVE-2024-56656

CVE-2024-56656 affects the bnxt_en driver in the Linux kernel and is caused by an aggregation ID mask that was not updated for P7 (5760X) chips. The completion structures’ aggregation ID field was redefined from 16 bits to 12 bits on P7, freeing 4 bits for metadata (e.g., VLAN ID). As a result, t...