CVE-2024-40940 net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail In case of flow rule creation fail in mlx5lagcreateportseltable, instead of previously created rules, the tainted pointer is deleted deveral times. Fix this...

CVE-2024-40940

The CVE-2024-40940 issue affects the Linux kernel mlx5 driver (net/mlx5). The root cause is in mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(): when a flow rule creation fails, the tainted pointer is deleted multiple times instead of using the correct flow rule pointers. The bug is fixed by using the correct fl...

CVE-2024-40906 net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal Currently, if teardownhca fails to execute during driver removal, mlx5 does not stop the health timer. Afterwards, mlx5 continue with driver teardown. This may lead to a UA...

CVE-2024-40906 net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal Currently, if teardownhca fails to execute during driver removal, mlx5 does not stop the health timer. Afterwards, mlx5 continue with driver teardown. This may lead to a UA...

CVE-2024-40906

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Always stop health timer during driver removal Currently, if teardownhca fails to execute during driver removal, mlx5 does not stop the health timer. Afterwards, mlx5 continue with driver teardown. This may lead to a UA...

CVE-2024-40906

The CVE-2024-40906 entry describes a Linux kernel vulnerability in the mlx5 driver where the health timer could continue after a failed teardown_hca during driver removal, risking a use-after-free that could trigger a page fault. The fix is to always stop the health monitor during driver removal,...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from an issue with the net/mlx5 component that duplicates pointers to delete created rules when creating flow rul...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the net/mlx5 component failing to properly stop the health timer during driver removal...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the RDMA/mlx5 component failing to check if the value of the maxsge attribute of an SRQ exceeds the maximum...

kernel: net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree

CVE-2024-35960 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Mellanox MLX5 driver that affects flow steering rule handling. When identical rules are created and referenced multiple times, they can fail to properly link into the rule tree, leaving them uninitialized. This can cause system crashes durin...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix fortify source warning while accessing Eth segment

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mlx5 InfiniBand driver. Certain scenarios could lead to a use-after-free issue, potentially allowing an attacker to escalate their privileges or affect system integrity or stability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:4106)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4106 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:4108)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4108 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: netfilter: nftables: use...

SUSE CVE-2022-48745

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use deltimersync in fw reset flow of halting poll Substitute deltimer with deltimersync in fw reset polling deactivation flow, in order to prevent a race condition which occurs when deltimer is called and timer is...

SUSE CVE-2022-48746

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix handling of wrong devices during bond netevent Current implementation of bond netevent handler only check if the handled netdev is VF representor and it missing a check if the VF representor is on the same phys...

SUSE CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

SUSE CVE-2024-38556

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore Prevent forced completion handling on an entry that has not yet been assigned an index, causing an out of bounds access on idx = -22. Instead of waiting indefinitely...

SUSE CVE-2024-38557

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Reload only IB representors upon lag disable/enable On lag disable, the bond IB device along with all of its representors are destroyed, and then the slaves' representors get reloaded. In case the slave IB representor...