Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.80.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-8108880
  • published28 Sept 2024
  • disclosed27 Sept 2024

Introduced: 27 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-43856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.80.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros 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:

dma: fix call order in dmam_free_coherent

dmam_free_coherent() frees a DMA allocation, which makes the freed vaddr available for reuse, then calls devres_destroy() to remove and free the data structure used to track the DMA allocation. Between the two calls, it is possible for a concurrent task to make an allocation with the same vaddr and add it to the devres list.

If this happens, there will be two entries in the devres list with the same vaddr and devres_destroy() can free the wrong entry, triggering the WARN_ON() in dmam_match.

Fix by destroying the devres entry before freeing the DMA allocation.

kokonut //net/encryption http://sponge2/b9145fe6-0f72-4325-ac2f-a84d81075b03

CVSS Scores

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