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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 20, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

i40e: Fix queues reservation for XDP

When XDP was configured on a system with large number of CPUs
and X722 NIC there was a call trace with NULL pointer dereference.

i40e 0000:87:00.0: failed to get tracking for 256 queues for VSI 0 err -12
i40e 0000:87:00.0: setup of MAIN VSI failed

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
RIP: 0010:i40e_xdp+0xea/0x1b0 [i40e]
Call Trace:
? i40e_reconfig_rss_queues+0x130/0x130 [i40e]
dev_xdp_install+0x61/0xe0
dev_xdp_attach+0x18a/0x4c0
dev_change_xdp_fd+0x1e6/0x220
do_setlink+0x616/0x1030
? ahci_port_stop+0x80/0x80
? ata_qc_issue+0x107/0x1e0
? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
? __mod_timer+0x202/0x380
rtnl_setlink+0xe5/0x170
? bpf_lsm_binder_transaction+0x10/0x10
? security_capable+0x36/0x50
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x121/0x350
? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x100/0x100
netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0xf0
netlink_unicast+0x1d3/0x2a0
netlink_sendmsg+0x22a/0x440
sock_sendmsg+0x5e/0x60
__sys_sendto+0xf0/0x160
? __sys_getsockname+0x7e/0xc0
? _copy_from_user+0x3c/0x80
? __sys_setsockopt+0xc8/0x1a0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f83fa7a39e0

This was caused by PF queue pile fragmentation due to
flow director VSI queue being placed right after main VSI.
Because of this main VSI was not able to resize its
queue allocation for XDP resulting in no queues allocated
for main VSI when XDP was turned on.

Fix this by always allocating last queue in PF queue pile
for a flow director VSI.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 20, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 20, 2024
Last updated Sep 18, 2024

Severity

Moderate

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
None
Integrity
None
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:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47619

GHSA ID

GHSA-cw86-cw6h-wc44

Source code

No known source code

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