Improper Input Validation Affecting kernel-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEVEL-6301563
  • published 28 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 27 Feb 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

netfilter: nftables: clone set element expression template

memcpy() breaks when using connlimit in set elements. Use nft_expr_clone() to initialize the connlimit expression list, otherwise connlimit garbage collector crashes when walking on the list head copy.

[ 493.064656] Workqueue: events_power_efficient nft_rhash_gc [nf_tables] [ 493.064685] RIP: 0010:find_or_evict+0x5a/0x90 [nf_conncount] [ 493.064694] Code: 2b 43 40 83 f8 01 77 0d 48 c7 c0 f5 ff ff ff 44 39 63 3c 75 df 83 6d 18 01 48 8b 43 08 48 89 de 48 8b 13 48 8b 3d ee 2f 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 03 48 83 [ 493.064699] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000417dc0 EFLAGS: 00010297 [ 493.064704] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888134f38410 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 493.064708] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888134f38410 RDI: ffff888100060cc0 [ 493.064711] RBP: ffff88812ce594a8 R08: ffff888134f38438 R09: 00000000ebb9025c [ 493.064714] R10: ffffffff8219f838 R11: 0000000000000017 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 493.064718] R13: ffffffff82146740 R14: ffff888134f38410 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 493.064721] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 493.064725] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 493.064729] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000001330aa002 CR4: 00000000001706e0 [ 493.064733] Call Trace: [ 493.064737] nf_conncount_gc_list+0x8f/0x150 [nf_conncount] [ 493.064746] nft_rhash_gc+0x106/0x390 [nf_tables]

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium