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GHSA-6G4R-V8V9-HJ9H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-16 15:30 – Updated: 2024-07-23 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vdpa/mlx5: add validation for VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET command

When control vq receives a VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET command request from the driver, presently there is no validation against the number of queue pairs to configure, or even if multiqueue had been negotiated or not is unverified. This may lead to kernel panic due to uninitialized resource for the queues were there any bogus request sent down by untrusted driver. Tie up the loose ends there.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-48864 (GCVE-0-2022-48864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-16 12:25 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:52

Title

vdpa/mlx5: add validation for VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET command

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa/mlx5: add validation for VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET command When control vq receives a VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET command request from the driver, presently there is no validation against the number of queue pairs to configure, or even if multiqueue had been negotiated or not is unverified. This may lead to kernel panic due to uninitialized resource for the queues were there any bogus request sent down by untrusted driver. Tie up the loose ends there.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:25 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7e118416465f2ba8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6effca75626c7a7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0f849fc3a63ed2d…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.29 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16.15 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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