vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2024-42082: Moderate: kernel security update (ALSA-2024-6567)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 29, 2024 | Nov 4, 2024 | Apr 17, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xdp: Remove WARN() from __xdp_reg_mem_model()
syzkaller reports a warning in __xdp_reg_mem_model().
The warning occurs only if __mem_id_init_hash_table() returns an error. It
returns the error in two cases:
1. memory allocation fails;
2. rhashtable_init() fails when some fields of rhashtable_params
struct are not initialized properly.
The second case cannot happen since there is a static const rhashtable_params
struct with valid fields. So, warning is only triggered when there is a
problem with memory allocation.
Thus, there is no sense in using WARN() to handle this error and it can be
safely removed.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5065 at net/core/xdp.c:299 __xdp_reg_mem_model+0x2d9/0x650 net/core/xdp.c:299
CPU: 0 PID: 5065 Comm: syz-executor883 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-05271-gf99c5f563c17 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:__xdp_reg_mem_model+0x2d9/0x650 net/core/xdp.c:299
Call Trace:
xdp_reg_mem_model+0x22/0x40 net/core/xdp.c:344
xdp_test_run_setup net/bpf/test_run.c:188 [inline]
bpf_test_run_xdp_live+0x365/0x1e90 net/bpf/test_run.c:377
bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x813/0x11b0 net/bpf/test_run.c:1267
bpf_prog_test_run+0x33a/0x3b0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4240
__sys_bpf+0x48d/0x810 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5649
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5738 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5736 [inline]
__x64_sys_bpf+0x7c/0x90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5736
do_syscall_64+0xfb/0x240
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with syzkaller.
Solutions
2026 Global Threat Landscape Report
The predictive window has collapsed. Exploitation follows disclosure in days. See how attackers are accelerating and how to stay ahead.