CVE-2024-41090

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Data arrives via shared memory rings, not from a remote network peer, so this is local rather than network access.\nAC:L - The attacker simply posts a TX descriptor whose payload is shorter than 14 bytes and kicks the virtqueue; vhost_net_build_xdp() only rejects len < sock_hlen, so the short frame reaches tap_get_user_xdp() deterministically. The XDP batch path is active in the default QEMU configuration (unlimited sndbuf), and can be retried indefinitely.\nPR:L - The attacker must be an authorized guest VM on the host, or a local user with access to /dev/vhost-net and a tap/macvtap character device \u2014 some privilege, but nothing resembling host root. 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tap_get_user_xdp() path, which could cause a corrupted skb to be\nsent downstack. Even before the skb is transmitted, the\ntap_get_user_xdp()-->skb_set_network_header() may assume the size is more\nthan ETH_HLEN. Once transmitted, this could either cause out-of-bound\naccess beyond the actual length, or confuse the underlayer with incorrect\nor inconsistent header length in the skb metadata.\nIn the alternative path, tap_get_user() already prohibits short frame which\nhas the length less than Ethernet header size from being transmitted.\nThis is to drop any frame shorter than the Ethernet header size just like\nhow tap_get_user() does.\nCVE: CVE-2024-41090", "A denial of service (DoS) attack was found in the mlx5 driver in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest VM using virtio-net can crash the host by sending a short packet, for example, size < ETH_HLEN. The packet may traverse through vhost-net, macvtap, and vlan without any validation or drop. When this packet is presented to the mlx5 driver on the host side, the kernel panic happens since mlx5_core assumes the frame size is always >= ETH_HLEN."], "name": "CVE-2024-41090", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-07-24T17:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41090\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41090\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072916-CVE-2024-41090-9830@gregkh\nhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/24/4"], "threat_severity": "Important"}

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