CVE-2024-26620 Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
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- published1 May 2024
- disclosed30 Apr 2024
Introduced: 30 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-26620 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default to version 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default package and not the kernel-default package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/vfio-ap: always filter entire AP matrix
The vfio_ap_mdev_filter_matrix function is called whenever a new adapter or domain is assigned to the mdev. The purpose of the function is to update the guest's AP configuration by filtering the matrix of adapters and domains assigned to the mdev. When an adapter or domain is assigned, only the APQNs associated with the APID of the new adapter or APQI of the new domain are inspected. If an APQN does not reference a queue device bound to the vfio_ap device driver, then it's APID will be filtered from the mdev's matrix when updating the guest's AP configuration.
Inspecting only the APID of the new adapter or APQI of the new domain will result in passing AP queues through to a guest that are not bound to the vfio_ap device driver under certain circumstances. Consider the following:
guest's AP configuration (all also assigned to the mdev's matrix): 14.0004 14.0005 14.0006 16.0004 16.0005 16.0006
unassign domain 4 unbind queue 16.0005 assign domain 4
When domain 4 is re-assigned, since only domain 4 will be inspected, the APQNs that will be examined will be: 14.0004 16.0004
Since both of those APQNs reference queue devices that are bound to the vfio_ap device driver, nothing will get filtered from the mdev's matrix when updating the guest's AP configuration. Consequently, queue 16.0005 will get passed through despite not being bound to the driver. This violates the linux device model requirement that a guest shall only be given access to devices bound to the device driver facilitating their pass-through.
To resolve this problem, every adapter and domain assigned to the mdev will be inspected when filtering the mdev's matrix.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26620.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221298
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224176
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/850fb7fa8c684a4c6bf0e4b6978f4ddcc5d43d11
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c69d821197611678533fb3eb784fc823b921349a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdd134d56138302976685e6c7bc4755450b3880e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6b8d034b576f406af920a7bee81606c027b24c6