CVE-2024-46799 (GCVE-0-2024-46799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-18 07:12 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:38
VLAI
Title
net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix NULL dereference on XDP_TX
Summary
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().
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
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Linux Linux Affected: 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 , < 2e7189d2b1de51fc2567676cd4f96c0fe0960b9f (git)
Affected: 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 , < 0a50c35277f96481a5a6ed5faf347f282040c57d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.10 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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