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Rocky Linux: CVE-2024-39506: kernel-rt (RLSA-2024-7001)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2024-39506: kernel-rt (RLSA-2024-7001)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/12/2024
Created
10/03/2024
Added
10/02/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet In lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() pg_info->page is compared to a NULL value, but then it is unconditionally passed to skb_add_rx_frag() which looks strange and could lead to null pointer dereference. lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() call trace looks like: octeon_droq_process_packets octeon_droq_fast_process_packets octeon_droq_dispatch_pkt octeon_create_recv_info ...search in the dispatch_list... ->disp_fn(rdisp->rinfo, ...) lio_vf_rep_pkt_recv(struct octeon_recv_info *recv_info, ...) In this path there is no code which sets pg_info->page to NULL. So this check looks unneeded and doesn't solve potential problem. But I guess the author had reason to add a check and I have no such card and can't do real test. In addition, the code in the function liquidio_push_packet() in liquidio/lio_core.c does exactly the same. Based on this, I consider the most acceptable compromise solution to adjust this issue by moving skb_add_rx_frag() into conditional scope. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-core
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-core
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-kvm
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-kvm
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules-extra

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