CVE-2024-46834
MEDIUMLinux Kernel < 6.10.10 - Denial of Service via Ethtool Indirection Table Channel Check Bypass
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: fail closed if we can't get max channel used in indirection tables Commit 0d1b7d6c9274 ("bnxt: fix crashes when reducing ring count with active RSS contexts") proves that allowing indirection table to contain channels with out of bounds IDs may lead to crashes. Currently the max channel check in the core gets skipped if driver can't fetch the indirection table or when we can't allocate memory. Both of those conditions should be extremely rare but if they do happen we should try to be safe and fail the channel change.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0021
EPSS Percentile
10.7%
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 (8)
linux/Kernel
4.6.0 - 6.10.10linux
Linux/Linux
< 4.6
Linux/Linux
4.6
Linux/Linux
6.10.10 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux
6.11
Linux/Linux
d4ab4286276fcd6c155bafdf4422b712068d2516 - 101737d8b88dbd4be6010bac398fe810f1950036
Linux/Linux
d4ab4286276fcd6c155bafdf4422b712068d2516 - 2899d58462ba868287d6ff3acad3675e7adf934f
linux/linux_kernel
< 6.10.10
Published
Sep 27, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026