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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50145

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 11/07/2024 5:15:06 AM

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Added Description

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

octeon_ep: Add SKB allocation failures handling in __octep_oq_process_rx()

build_skb() returns NULL in case of a memory allocation failure so handle
it inside __octep_oq_process_rx() to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

__octep_oq_process_rx() is called during NAPI polling by the driver. If
skb allocation fails, keep on pulling packets out of the Rx DMA queue: we
shouldn't break the polling immediately and thus falsely indicate to the
octep_napi_poll() that the Rx pressure is going down. As there is no
associated skb in this case, don't process the packets and don't push them
up the network stack - they are skipped.

Helper function is implemented to unmmap/flush all the fragment buffers
used by the dropped packet. 'alloc_failures' counter is incremented to
mark the skb allocation error in driver statistics.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09ce491112bbf0b866e2638d3e961c1c73d1f00b [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dedcb6f99f4c1a11944e7cc35dbeb9b18a5cbac [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2d2dc4f88bb3cfc4f3cc320fd3ff51b0ae5b0ea [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb592008f79be52ccef88cd9a5249b3fc0367278 [No types assigned]