Linux Kernel up to 6.9.5 ionic_tx_clean denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.9.5 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function ionic_tx_clean. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-40907. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.9.5. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function ionic_tx_clean. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: fix kernel panic in XDP_TX action In the XDP_TX path, ionic driver sends a packet to the TX path with rx page and corresponding dma address. After tx is done, ionic_tx_clean() frees that page. But RX ring buffer isn't reset to NULL. So, it uses a freed page, which causes kernel panic. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8881576c110c PGD 773801067 P4D 773801067 PUD 87f086067 PMD 87efca067 PTE 800ffffea893e060 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 25 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 6.9.0+ #11 Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME Z690-P D4, BIOS 0603 11/01/2021 RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_f0b8caeac1068a55_balancer_ingress+0x3b/0x44f Code: 00 53 41 55 41 56 41 57 b8 01 00 00 00 48 8b 5f 08 4c 8b 77 00 4c 89 f7 48 83 c7 0e 48 39 d8 RSP: 0018:ffff888104e6fa28 EFLAGS: 00010283 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff8881576c1140 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: ffffffffc0051f64 RSI: ffffc90002d33048 RDI: ffff8881576c110e RBP: ffff888104e6fa88 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1027a04a23 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881b03a21a8 R13: ffff8881589f800f R14: ffff8881576c1100 R15: 00000001576c1100 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88881ae00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff8881576c110c CR3: 0000000767a90000 CR4: 00000000007506f0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? __die+0x20/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x254/0x790 ? __pfx_page_fault_oops+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_is_prefetch.constprop.0+0x10/0x10 ? search_bpf_extables+0x165/0x260 ? fixup_exception+0x4a/0x970 ? exc_page_fault+0xcb/0xe0 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? 0xffffffffc0051f64 ? bpf_prog_f0b8caeac1068a55_balancer_ingress+0x3b/0x44f ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x54/0x220 ionic_rx_service+0x11ab/0x3010 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ? ionic_tx_clean+0x29b/0xc60 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ? __pfx_ionic_tx_clean+0x10/0x10 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ? __pfx_ionic_rx_service+0x10/0x10 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ? ionic_tx_cq_service+0x25d/0xa00 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ? __pfx_ionic_rx_service+0x10/0x10 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ionic_cq_service+0x69/0x150 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] ionic_txrx_napi+0x11a/0x540 [ionic 9180c3001ab627d82bbc5f3ebe8a0decaf6bb864] __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa0/0x440 net_rx_action+0x7e7/0xc30 ? __pfx_net_rx_action+0x10/0x10

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-40907 since 07/12/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208962 (CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-516.el9), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.9.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8812aa35f3e9/491aee894a08 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 (208962). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.9.0
• 6.9.1
• 6.9.2
• 6.9.3
• 6.9.4
• 6.9.5

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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