CVE-2024-41066
ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak
Below is a summary of how the driver stores a reference to an skb during
transmit:
tx_buff[free_map[consumer_index]]->skb = new_skb;
free_map[consumer_index] = IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP;
consumer_index ++;
Where variable data looks like this:
free_map == [4, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, IBMVNIC_INVALID_MAP, 0, 3]
consumer_index^
tx_buff == [skb=null, skb=<ptr>, skb=<ptr>, skb=null, skb=null]
The driver has checks to ensure that free_map[consumer_index] pointed to
a valid index but there was no check to ensure that this index pointed
to an unused/null skb address. So, if, by some chance, our free_map and
tx_buff lists become out of sync then we were previously risking an
skb memory leak. This could then cause tcp congestion control to stop
sending packets, eventually leading to ETIMEDOUT.
Therefore, add a conditional to ensure that the skb address is null. If
not then warn the user (because this is still a bug that should be
patched) and free the old pointer to prevent memleak/tcp problems.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:Track
Timeline
- 2024-07-12 CVE Reserved
- 2024-07-29 CVE Published
- 2024-09-11 EPSS Updated
- 2024-11-05 CVE Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CAPEC
References (6)
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URL | Date | SRC |
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41066 | 2024-11-13 | |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300442 | 2024-11-13 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.1.101 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.1.101" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.6.42 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.6.42" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.9.11 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.9.11" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.10 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.10" | en |
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