CVE-2024-27079 Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-6757595
  • published2 May 2024
  • disclosed1 May 2024

Introduced: 1 May 2024

CVE-2024-27079  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-tools-libs-devel to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9315.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

iommu/vt-d: Fix NULL domain on device release

In the kdump kernel, the IOMMU operates in deferred_attach mode. In this mode, info->domain may not yet be assigned by the time the release_device function is called. It leads to the following crash in the crash kernel:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000003c
...
RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0xa/0xa0
...
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1b/0x30
intel_iommu_release_device+0x96/0x170
iommu_deinit_device+0x39/0xf0
__iommu_group_remove_device+0xa0/0xd0
iommu_bus_notifier+0x55/0xb0
notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0xd0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x41/0x60
bus_notify+0x34/0x50
device_del+0x269/0x3d0
pci_remove_bus_device+0x77/0x100
p2sb_bar+0xae/0x1d0
...
i801_probe+0x423/0x740

Use the release_domain mechanism to fix it. The scalable mode context entry which is not part of release domain should be cleared in release_device().

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