CVE-2024-46799

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.10-6.10.9 - NULL Pointer Dereference in XDP_TX Queue Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix NULL dereference on XDP_TX If number of TX queues are set to 1 we get a NULL pointer dereference during XDP_TX. ~# ethtool -L eth0 tx 1 ~# ./xdp-trafficgen udp -A <ipv6-src> -a <ipv6-dst> eth0 -t 2 Transmitting on eth0 (ifindex 2) [ 241.135257] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000030 Fix this by using actual TX queues instead of max TX queues when picking the TX channel in am65_cpsw_ndo_xdp_xmit().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%
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-476
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.10.0 - 6.10.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.10.10 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 - 0a50c35277f96481a5a6ed5faf347f282040c57d
Linux/Linux 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 - 2e7189d2b1de51fc2567676cd4f96c0fe0960b9f
linux/linux_kernel 6.11 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.10 - 6.10.10
Published Sep 18, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026