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Race Condition Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.113.1.el8_6

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PERF-7573917
  • published 30 Jul 2024
  • disclosed 30 May 2024
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Introduced: 30 May 2024

CVE-2024-36020 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-372.113.1.el8_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:4902.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf 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:

i40e: fix vf may be used uninitialized in this function warning

To fix the regression introduced by commit 52424f974bc5, which causes servers hang in very hard to reproduce conditions with resets races. Using two sources for the information is the root cause. In this function before the fix bumping v didn't mean bumping vf pointer. But the code used this variables interchangeably, so stale vf could point to different/not intended vf.

Remove redundant "v" variable and iterate via single VF pointer across whole function instead to guarantee VF pointer validity.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

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

4.7 medium