vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-56717): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2024-12-29 | 2025-03-28 | 2025-05-21 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mscc: ocelot: fix incorrect IFH SRC_PORT field in ocelot_ifh_set_basic()
Packets injected by the CPU should have a SRC_PORT field equal to the
CPU port module index in the Analyzer block (ocelot->num_phys_ports).
The blamed commit copied the ocelot_ifh_set_basic() call incorrectly
from ocelot_xmit_common() in net/dsa/tag_ocelot.c. Instead of calling
with "x", it calls with BIT_ULL(x), but the field is not a port mask,
but rather a single port index.
[ side note: this is the technical debt of code duplication :( ]
The error used to be silent and doesn't appear to have other
user-visible manifestations, but with new changes in the packing
library, it now fails loudly as follows:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Cannot store 0x40 inside bits 46-43 - will truncate
sja1105 spi2.0: xmit timed out
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 102 at lib/packing.c:98 __pack+0x90/0x198
sja1105 spi2.0: timed out polling for tstamp
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 102 Comm: felix_xmit
Tainted: G W N 6.13.0-rc1-00372-gf706b85d972d-dirty #2605
Call trace:
__pack+0x90/0x198 (P)
__pack+0x90/0x198 (L)
packing+0x78/0x98
ocelot_ifh_set_basic+0x260/0x368
ocelot_port_inject_frame+0xa8/0x250
felix_port_deferred_xmit+0x14c/0x258
kthread_worker_fn+0x134/0x350
kthread+0x114/0x138
The code path pertains to the ocelot switchdev driver and to the felix
secondary DSA tag protocol, ocelot-8021q. Here seen with ocelot-8021q.
The messenger (packing) is not really to blame, so fix the original
commit instead.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-56717
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-56717
- UBUNTU-USN-7379-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7379-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7380-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7381-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7382-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7513-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7513-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7513-3
- UBUNTU-USN-7514-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7515-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7515-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7522-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7523-1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/2d5df3a680ffdaf606baa10636bdb1daf757832e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d5df3a680ffdaf606baa10636bdb1daf757832e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f3c62ffe88116cd2a39cd73e01103535599970f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59c4ca8d8d7918eb6e2df91d2c254827264be309
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8836eae3288c351acd3b2743d2fad2a4ee2bd56
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7379-1
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7380-1
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7381-1
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7382-1
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56717

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