gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats
CVE-2024-42162 · published 30 Jul 2024
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2024-42162?
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf to < acf609843a848e2c22ccce98eef109330403380d, 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf to < 32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62, 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf to < af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6
- Linux Linux: 5.10
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats
We now account for the fact that the NIC might send us stats for a
subset of queues. Without this change, gve_get_ethtool_stats might make
an invalid access on the priv->stats_report->stats array.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/acf609843a848e2c22ccce98eef109330403380d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6
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