CVE-2024-35958

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.6-6.8.7 DoS via Incorrect TX Descriptor Free

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior ENA has two types of TX queues: - queues which only process TX packets arriving from the network stack - queues which only process TX packets forwarded to it by XDP_REDIRECT or XDP_TX instructions The ena_free_tx_bufs() cycles through all descriptors in a TX queue and unmaps + frees every descriptor that hasn't been acknowledged yet by the device (uncompleted TX transactions). The function assumes that the processed TX queue is necessarily from the first category listed above and ends up using napi_consume_skb() for descriptors belonging to an XDP specific queue. This patch solves a bug in which, in case of a VF reset, the descriptors aren't freed correctly, leading to crashes.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.0%
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

Status published
Products (22)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.156linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.87linux
linux/Kernel 5.6.0 - 5.10.216linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.28linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.7linux
Linux/Linux < 5.6
Linux/Linux 5.10.216 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.156 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.6
... and 12 more
Published May 20, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026