CVE-2024-26584

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.1.84 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests Since we're setting the CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG flag on our requests to the crypto API, crypto_aead_{encrypt,decrypt} can return -EBUSY instead of -EINPROGRESS in valid situations. For example, when the cryptd queue for AESNI is full (easy to trigger with an artificially low cryptd.cryptd_max_cpu_qlen), requests will be enqueued to the backlog but still processed. In that case, the async callback will also be called twice: first with err == -EINPROGRESS, which it seems we can just ignore, then with err == 0. Compared to Sabrina's original patch this version uses the new tls_*crypt_async_wait() helpers and converts the EBUSY to EINPROGRESS to avoid having to modify all the error handling paths. The handling is identical.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-755
Status published
Products (5)
linux/Kernel 4.16.0 - 5.15.160linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.84linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.18linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.6linux
linux/linux_kernel 4.16.0 - 6.1.84
Published Feb 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026