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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 7, 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 crash caused by calling __xfrm_state_delete() twice

The km.state is not checked in driver's delayed work. When
xfrm_state_check_expire() is called, the state can be reset to
XFRM_STATE_EXPIRED, even if it is XFRM_STATE_DEAD already. This
happens when xfrm state is deleted, but not freed yet. As
__xfrm_state_delete() is called again in xfrm timer, the following
crash occurs.

To fix this issue, skip xfrm_state_check_expire() if km.state is not
XFRM_STATE_VALID.

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 7448 Comm: kworker/u102:2 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc2+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mlx5e_ipsec: eth%d mlx5e_ipsec_handle_sw_limits [mlx5_core]
RIP: 0010:__xfrm_state_delete+0x3d/0x1b0
Code: 0f 84 8b 01 00 00 48 89 fd c6 87 c8 00 00 00 05 48 8d bb 40 10 00 00 e8 11 04 1a 00 48 8b 95 b8 00 00 00 48 8b 85 c0 00 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 8b 55 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48
RSP: 0018:ffff88885f945ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: dead000000000122 RBX: ffffffff82afa940 RCX: 0000000000000036
RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff82afb980
RBP: ffff888109a20340 R08: ffff88885f945ea0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88885f945ff8 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: ffff888109a20340 R14: ffff88885f95f420 R15: ffff88885f95f400
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88885f940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2163102430 CR3: 00000001128d6001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

? die_addr+0x33/0x90
? exc_general_protection+0x1a2/0x390
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
? __xfrm_state_delete+0x3d/0x1b0
? __xfrm_state_delete+0x2f/0x1b0
xfrm_timer_handler+0x174/0x350
? __xfrm_state_delete+0x1b0/0x1b0
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x121/0x270
hrtimer_run_softirq+0x88/0xd0
handle_softirqs+0xcc/0x270
do_softirq+0x3c/0x50


__local_bh_enable_ip+0x47/0x50
mlx5e_ipsec_handle_sw_limits+0x7d/0x90 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x137/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x28d/0x3a0
? rescuer_thread+0x480/0x480
kthread+0xb8/0xe0
? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Nov 7, 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

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-49953

GHSA ID

GHSA-8qrg-fxff-9fcm

Source code

No known source code

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