vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-53138: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 4, 2024 | Mar 14, 2025 | May 20, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: kTLS, Fix incorrect page refcounting
The kTLS tx handling code is using a mix of get_page() and
page_ref_inc() APIs to increment the page reference. But on the release
path (mlx5e_ktls_tx_handle_resync_dump_comp()), only put_page() is used.
This is an issue when using pages from large folios: the get_page()
references are stored on the folio page while the page_ref_inc()
references are stored directly in the given page. On release the folio
page will be dereferenced too many times.
This was found while doing kTLS testing with sendfile() + ZC when the
served file was read from NFS on a kernel with NFS large folios support
(commit 49b29a573da8 ("nfs: add support for large folios")).
Solutions
References
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-079
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-061
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-091
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-079
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-061
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-091
- CVE-2024-53138
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-53138
- EUVD-EUVD-2024-51810
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-51810
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