Out-of-Bounds Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-7327695
- published 21 Jun 2024
- disclosed 19 Jun 2024
Introduced: 19 Jun 2024
CVE-2024-38544 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools 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: Fix seg fault in rxe_comp_queue_pkt
In rxe_comp_queue_pkt() an incoming response packet skb is enqueued to the resp_pkts queue and then a decision is made whether to run the completer task inline or schedule it. Finally the skb is dereferenced to bump a 'hw' performance counter. This is wrong because if the completer task is already running in a separate thread it may have already processed the skb and freed it which can cause a seg fault. This has been observed infrequently in testing at high scale.
This patch fixes this by changing the order of enqueuing the packet until after the counter is accessed.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38544
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de5a059e36657442b5637cc16df5163e435b9cb4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0e14dd35d4242340c7346aac60c7ff8fbf87ffc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91fb72a2ca6480d8d77262eef52dc5b178463a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21b4c6d4d89030fd4657a8e7c8110fd941049794
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b23b6097303ed0ba5f4bc036a1c07b6027af5c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30df4bef8b8e183333e9b6e9d4509d552c7da6eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbad88f111a1829f366c189aa48e7e58e57553fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faa8d0ecf6c9c7c2ace3ca3e552180ada6f75e19