CVE-2024-42162

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.3-6.9.8 - Denial of Service via Invalid NIC Stats Array Access

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 9.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-754

Status published

Products (8)

linux/Kernel 5.10.0 - 6.9.9linux

Linux/Linux < 5.10

Linux/Linux 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf - 32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62

Linux/Linux 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf - af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6

Linux/Linux 5.10

Linux/Linux 6.10

Linux/Linux 6.9.9 - 6.9.*

linux/linux_kernel 5.3 - 6.9.9

Published Jul 30, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026