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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 29, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal

Currently, if teardown_hca fails to execute during driver removal, mlx5
does not stop the health timer. Afterwards, mlx5 continue with driver
teardown. This may lead to a UAF bug, which results in page fault
Oops[1], since the health timer invokes after resources were freed.

Hence, stop the health monitor even if teardown_hca fails.

[1]
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: E-Switch: Unload vfs: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: E-Switch: Disable: mode(LEGACY), nvfs(0), necvfs(0), active vports(0)
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: E-Switch: cleanup
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: wait_func:1155:(pid 1967079): TEARDOWN_HCA(0x103) timeout. Will cause a leak of a command resource
mlx5_core 0000:18:00.0: mlx5_function_close:1288:(pid 1967079): tear_down_hca failed, skip cleanup
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa26487064230
PGD 100c00067 P4D 100c00067 PUD 100e5a067 PMD 105ed7067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G OE ------- --- 6.7.0-68.fc38.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0013.121520200651 12/15/2020
RIP: 0010:ioread32be+0x34/0x60
RSP: 0018:ffffa26480003e58 EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: ffffa26487064200 RBX: ffff9042d08161a0 RCX: ffff904c108222c0
RDX: 000000010bbf1b80 RSI: ffffffffc055ddb0 RDI: ffffa26487064230
RBP: ffff9042d08161a0 R08: 0000000000000022 R09: ffff904c108222e8
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000441 R12: ffffffffc055ddb0
R13: ffffa26487064200 R14: ffffa26480003f00 R15: ffff904c108222c0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff904c10800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffa26487064230 CR3: 00000002c4420006 CR4: 00000000007706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

? __die+0x23/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4e0
? exc_page_fault+0x175/0x180
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? __pfx_poll_health+0x10/0x10 [mlx5_core]
? __pfx_poll_health+0x10/0x10 [mlx5_core]
? ioread32be+0x34/0x60
mlx5_health_check_fatal_sensors+0x20/0x100 [mlx5_core]
? __pfx_poll_health+0x10/0x10 [mlx5_core]
poll_health+0x42/0x230 [mlx5_core]
? __next_timer_interrupt+0xbc/0x110
? __pfx_poll_health+0x10/0x10 [mlx5_core]
call_timer_fn+0x21/0x130
? __pfx_poll_health+0x10/0x10 [mlx5_core]
__run_timers+0x222/0x2c0
run_timer_softirq+0x1d/0x40
__do_softirq+0xc9/0x2c8
__irq_exit_rcu+0xa6/0xc0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x90


asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xcc/0x440
? cpuidle_enter_state+0xbd/0x440
cpuidle_enter+0x2d/0x40
do_idle+0x20d/0x270
cpu_startup_entry+0x2a/0x30
rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x30
start_kernel+0x709/0xa90
x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
x86_64_start_kernel+0x96/0xa0
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x18f/0x19b
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Aug 29, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-40906

GHSA ID

GHSA-jpp6-vjx7-xmp2

Source code

No known source code

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