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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jul 30, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 27, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

wifi: cfg80211: restrict NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_QUANTUM values

syzbot is able to trigger softlockups, setting NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_QUANTUM
to 2^31.

We had a similar issue in sch_fq, fixed with commit
d9e15a273306 ("pkt_sched: fq: do not accept silly TCA_FQ_QUANTUM")

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 26s! [kworker/1:0:24]
Modules linked in:
irq event stamp: 131135
hardirqs last enabled at (131134): [] __exit_to_kernel_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:85 [inline]
hardirqs last enabled at (131134): [] exit_to_kernel_mode+0xdc/0x10c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:95
hardirqs last disabled at (131135): [] __el1_irq arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:533 [inline]
hardirqs last disabled at (131135): [] el1_interrupt+0x24/0x68 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:551
softirqs last enabled at (125892): [] neigh_hh_init net/core/neighbour.c:1538 [inline]
softirqs last enabled at (125892): [] neigh_resolve_output+0x268/0x658 net/core/neighbour.c:1553
softirqs last disabled at (125896): [] local_bh_disable+0x10/0x34 include/linux/bottom_half.h:19
CPU: 1 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-gfda5695d692c #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __list_del include/linux/list.h:195 [inline]
pc : __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:218 [inline]
pc : list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:310 [inline]
pc : fq_tin_dequeue include/net/fq_impl.h:112 [inline]
pc : ieee80211_tx_dequeue+0x6b8/0x3b4c net/mac80211/tx.c:3854
lr : __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:218 [inline]
lr : list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:310 [inline]
lr : fq_tin_dequeue include/net/fq_impl.h:112 [inline]
lr : ieee80211_tx_dequeue+0x67c/0x3b4c net/mac80211/tx.c:3854
sp : ffff800093d36700
x29: ffff800093d36a60 x28: ffff800093d36960 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff0000d800ad50 x25: ffff0000d800abe0 x24: ffff0000d800abf0
x23: ffff0000e0032468 x22: ffff0000e00324d4 x21: ffff0000d800abf0
x20: ffff0000d800abf8 x19: ffff0000d800abf0 x18: ffff800093d363c0
x17: 000000000000d476 x16: ffff8000805519dc x15: ffff7000127a6cc8
x14: 1ffff000127a6cc8 x13: 0000000000000004 x12: ffffffffffffffff
x11: ffff7000127a6cc8 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff80009287aa08 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : ffff80008034c7fc
x2 : ffff0000e0032468 x1 : 00000000da0e46b8 x0 : ffff0000e0032470
Call trace:
__list_del include/linux/list.h:195 [inline]
__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:218 [inline]
list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:310 [inline]
fq_tin_dequeue include/net/fq_impl.h:112 [inline]
ieee80211_tx_dequeue+0x6b8/0x3b4c net/mac80211/tx.c:3854
wake_tx_push_queue net/mac80211/util.c:294 [inline]
ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue+0x118/0x274 net/mac80211/util.c:315
drv_wake_tx_queue net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1350 [inline]
schedule_and_wake_txq net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1357 [inline]
ieee80211_queue_skb+0x18e8/0x2244 net/mac80211/tx.c:1664
ieee80211_tx+0x260/0x400 net/mac80211/tx.c:1966
ieee80211_xmit+0x278/0x354 net/mac80211/tx.c:2062
__ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xab8/0x122c net/mac80211/tx.c:4338
ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xe0/0x438 net/mac80211/tx.c:4532
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4903 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4917 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3531 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x27c/0x938 net/core/dev.c:3547
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1678/0x33fc net/core/dev.c:4341
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline]
neigh_resolve_output+0x558/0x658 net/core/neighbour.c:1563
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:542 [inline]
ip6_fini
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 30, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 30, 2024
Last updated Aug 27, 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-2024-42114

GHSA ID

GHSA-hj3c-gwrc-6jch

Source code

No known source code

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