CVE-2021-47261 in Linux
Zusammenfassung
von MITRE • 21.05.2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer
The function init_cq_frag_buf() can be called to initialize the current CQ fragments buffer cq->buf, or the temporary cq->resize_buf that is filled during CQ resize operation.
However, the offending commit started to use function get_cqe() for getting the CQEs, the issue with this change is that get_cqe() always returns CQEs from cq->buf, which leads us to initialize the wrong buffer, and in case of enlarging the CQ we try to access elements beyond the size of the current cq->buf and eventually hit a kernel panic.
[exception RIP: init_cq_frag_buf+103]
[ffff9f799ddcbcd8] mlx5_ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc0835d60 [mlx5_ib]
[ffff9f799ddcbdb0] ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc05270df [ib_core]
[ffff9f799ddcbdc0] llt_rdma_setup_qp at ffffffffc0a6a712 [llt]
[ffff9f799ddcbe10] llt_rdma_cc_event_action at ffffffffc0a6b411 [llt]
[ffff9f799ddcbe98] llt_rdma_client_conn_thread at ffffffffc0a6bb75 [llt]
[ffff9f799ddcbec8] kthread at ffffffffa66c5da1
[ffff9f799ddcbf50] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin at ffffffffa6d95ddd
Fix it by getting the needed CQE by calling mlx5_frag_buf_get_wqe() that takes the correct source buffer as a parameter.
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