Improper Input Validation Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-7096612
  • published 24 May 2024
  • disclosed 1 Mar 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1988.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

RDMA/rxe: Return CQE error if invalid lkey was supplied

RXE is missing update of WQE status in LOCAL_WRITE failures. This caused the following kernel panic if someone sent an atomic operation with an explicitly wrong lkey.

[leonro@vm ~]$ mkt test test_atomic_invalid_lkey (tests.test_atomic.AtomicTest) ... WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 263 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c:740 rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe] Modules linked in: crc32_generic rdma_rxe ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel rdma_ucm rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core ptp pps_core CPU: 5 PID: 263 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #2936 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:rxe_completer+0x1a6d/0x2e30 [rdma_rxe] Code: 03 0f 8e 65 0e 00 00 3b 93 10 06 00 00 0f 84 82 0a 00 00 4c 89 ff 4c 89 44 24 38 e8 2d 74 a9 e1 4c 8b 44 24 38 e9 1c f5 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 0c e8 ff ff b8 05 00 00 00 41 bf 05 00 00 00 e9 ab e7 ff RSP: 0018:ffff8880158af090 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888016a78000 RCX: ffffffffa0cf1652 RDX: 1ffff9200004b442 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc9000025a210 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 00000000ffffffea R09: ffff88801617740b R10: ffffed1002c2ee81 R11: 0000000000000007 R12: ffff88800f3b63e8 R13: ffff888016a78008 R14: ffffc9000025a180 R15: 000000000000000c FS: 00007f88b622a740(0000) GS:ffff88806d540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f88b5a1fa10 CR3: 000000000d848004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe] rxe_rcv+0xb11/0x1df0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_loopback+0x157/0x1e0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_responder+0x5532/0x7620 [rdma_rxe] rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe] rxe_rcv+0x9c8/0x1df0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_loopback+0x157/0x1e0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_requester+0x1efd/0x58c0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_do_task+0x130/0x230 [rdma_rxe] rxe_post_send+0x998/0x1860 [rdma_rxe] ib_uverbs_post_send+0xd5f/0x1220 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_write+0x847/0xc80 [ib_uverbs] vfs_write+0x1c5/0x840 ksys_write+0x176/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

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

5.5 medium