NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.7.3


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 ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-7712954
  • published 20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 25 Jun 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.7.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb-devel package and not the kernel-64kb-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: hns3: fix kernel crash when 1588 is received on HIP08 devices

The HIP08 devices does not register the ptp devices, so the hdev->ptp is NULL, but the hardware can receive 1588 messages, and set the HNS3_RXD_TS_VLD_B bit, so, if match this case, the access of hdev->ptp->flags will cause a kernel crash:

[ 5888.946472] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018 [ 5888.946475] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018 ... [ 5889.266118] pc : hclge_ptp_get_rx_hwts+0x40/0x170 [hclge] [ 5889.272612] lr : hclge_ptp_get_rx_hwts+0x34/0x170 [hclge] [ 5889.279101] sp : ffff800012c3bc50 [ 5889.283516] x29: ffff800012c3bc50 x28: ffff2040002be040 [ 5889.289927] x27: ffff800009116484 x26: 0000000080007500 [ 5889.296333] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff204001c6f000 [ 5889.302738] x23: ffff204144f53c00 x22: 0000000000000000 [ 5889.309134] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffff204004220080 [ 5889.315520] x19: ffff204144f53c00 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 5889.321897] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 [ 5889.328263] x15: 0000004000140ec8 x14: 0000000000000000 [ 5889.334617] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 00000000010011df [ 5889.340965] x11: bbfeff4d22000000 x10: 0000000000000000 [ 5889.347303] x9 : ffff800009402124 x8 : 0200f78811dfbb4d [ 5889.353637] x7 : 2200000000191b01 x6 : ffff208002a7d480 [ 5889.359959] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 [ 5889.366271] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000 [ 5889.372567] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff20400095c080 [ 5889.378857] Call trace: [ 5889.382285] hclge_ptp_get_rx_hwts+0x40/0x170 [hclge] [ 5889.388304] hns3_handle_bdinfo+0x324/0x410 [hns3] [ 5889.394055] hns3_handle_rx_bd+0x60/0x150 [hns3] [ 5889.399624] hns3_clean_rx_ring+0x84/0x170 [hns3] [ 5889.405270] hns3_nic_common_poll+0xa8/0x220 [hns3] [ 5889.411084] napi_poll+0xcc/0x264 [ 5889.415329] net_rx_action+0xd4/0x21c [ 5889.419911] __do_softirq+0x130/0x358 [ 5889.424484] irq_exit+0x134/0x154 [ 5889.428700] __handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf0 [ 5889.433684] gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x2c0 [ 5889.438319] el1_irq+0xb8/0x140 [ 5889.442354] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x40 [ 5889.446816] default_idle_call+0x5c/0x1c0 [ 5889.451714] cpuidle_idle_call+0x174/0x1b0 [ 5889.456692] do_idle+0xc8/0x160 [ 5889.460717] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0xfc [ 5889.465523] secondary_start_kernel+0x158/0x1ec [ 5889.470936] Code: 97ffab78 f9411c14 91408294 f9457284 (f9400c80) [ 5889.477950] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 5890.514626] SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-69,71-95 [ 5890.522951] Starting crashdump kernel...

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • 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

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

4.4 medium