vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-40940: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/12/2024
Added
07/18/2024
Modified
02/18/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail

In case of flow rule creation fail in mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(),
instead of previously created rules, the tainted pointer is deleted
deveral times.
Fix this bug by using correct flow rules pointers.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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