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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 19, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 27, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling

mlx5e_suspend cleans resources only if netif_device_present() returns
true. However, mlx5e_resume changes the state of netif, via
mlx5e_nic_enable, only if reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED.
In the below case, the above leads to NULL-ptr Oops[1] and memory
leaks:

mlx5e_probe
_mlx5e_resume
mlx5e_attach_netdev
mlx5e_nic_enable <-- netdev not reg, not calling netif_device_attach()
register_netdev <-- failed for some reason.
ERROR_FLOW:
_mlx5e_suspend <-- netif_device_present return false, resources aren't freed :(

Hence, clean resources in this case as well.

[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
CPU: 2 PID: 9345 Comm: test-ovs-ct-gen Not tainted 6.5.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_09_05_16_01 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffff888178aaf758 EFLAGS: 00010246
Call Trace:

? __die+0x20/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x14c/0x3c0
? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x140
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60
mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_core_uplink_netdev_event_replay+0x3e/0x60 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_mdev_netdev_track+0x53/0x60 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5_ib_roce_init+0xc3/0x340 [mlx5_ib]
__mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5r_probe+0xe1/0x210 [mlx5_ib]
? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90
auxiliary_bus_probe+0x38/0x80
? driver_sysfs_add+0x51/0x80
really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0
? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
__driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
__device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0
device_add+0x637/0x840
__auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0
add_adev+0xc9/0x140 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x22a/0x310 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_register_device+0x53/0xa0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_init_one_devl_locked+0x5c4/0x9c0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_init_one+0x3b/0x60 [mlx5_core]
probe_one+0x44c/0x730 [mlx5_core]
local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90
pci_device_probe+0xbf/0x210
? kernfs_create_link+0x5d/0xa0
? sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x60/0xc0
really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0
? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
__driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
__device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
pci_bus_add_device+0x54/0x80
pci_iov_add_virtfn+0x2e6/0x320
sriov_enable+0x208/0x420
mlx5_core_sriov_configure+0x9e/0x200 [mlx5_core]
sriov_numvfs_store+0xae/0x1a0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0
vfs_write+0x291/0x3c0
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 19, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 19, 2024
Last updated Aug 27, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-38608

GHSA ID

GHSA-rh54-rh9r-p3ph

Source code

No known source code

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