Linux Kernel up to 6.8.4 time-event.c privilege escalation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.8.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.c. This manipulation causes an unknown weakness. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-35913. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.8.4 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.c. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: pick the version of SESSION_PROTECTION_NOTIF When we want to know whether we should look for the mac_id or the link_id in struct iwl_mvm_session_prot_notif, we should look at the version of SESSION_PROTECTION_NOTIF. This causes WARNINGs: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11403 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.c:959 iwl_mvm_rx_session_protect_notif+0x333/0x340 [iwlmvm] RIP: 0010:iwl_mvm_rx_session_protect_notif+0x333/0x340 [iwlmvm] Code: 00 49 c7 84 24 48 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 c6 84 24 78 07 00 00 ff 4c 89 f7 e8 e9 71 54 d9 e9 7d fd ff ff 0f 0b e9 23 fe ff ff 0b e9 1c fe ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffb4bb00003d40 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9ae63a361000 RCX: ffff9ae4a98b60d4 RDX: ffff9ae4588499c0 RSI: 0000000000000305 RDI: ffff9ae4a98b6358 RBP: ffffb4bb00003d68 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000010 R10: ffffb4bb00003d00 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff9ae441399050 R13: ffff9ae4761329e8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ae7af400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055fb75680018 CR3: 00000003dae32006 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? show_regs+0x69/0x80 ? __warn+0x8d/0x150 ? iwl_mvm_rx_session_protect_notif+0x333/0x340 [iwlmvm] ? report_bug+0x196/0x1c0 ? handle_bug+0x45/0x80 ? exc_invalid_op+0x1c/0xb0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30 ? iwl_mvm_rx_session_protect_notif+0x333/0x340 [iwlmvm] iwl_mvm_rx_common+0x115/0x340 [iwlmvm] iwl_mvm_rx_mq+0xa6/0x100 [iwlmvm] iwl_pcie_rx_handle+0x263/0xa10 [iwlwifi] iwl_pcie_napi_poll_msix+0x32/0xd0 [iwlwifi]

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-35913 since 05/17/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210815 (RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:9315)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.8.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 222abd95f503/bbe806c294c9 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210815). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

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• Kernel

Version

• 6.8.0
• 6.8.1
• 6.8.2
• 6.8.3
• 6.8.4

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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