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CVE-2024-38586 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. An issue was found on the RTL8125b when transmitting small fragmented packets, whereby invalid entries were inserted into the transmit ring buffer, subsequently leading to calls to dma_unmap_single() with a null address. This was caused by rtl8169_start_xmit() not noticing changes to nr_frags which may occur when small packets are padded (to work around hardware quirks) in rtl8169_tso_csum_v2(). To fix this, postpone inspecting nr_frags until after any padding has been applied.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/078d5b7500d70af2de6b38e226b03f0b932026a6 CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c48185a95309556725f818b82120bb74e9c627d CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54e7a0d111240c92c0f02ceba6eb8f26bf6d6479 CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61c1c98e2607120ce9c3fa1bf75e6da909712b27 CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68222d7b4b72aa321135cd453dac37f00ec41fd1 CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6d21cf40de103d63ae78551098a7c06af8c98dd CVE, kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71e3a5cffd5309d7f84444df03d5b72600cc417 CVE, kernel.org Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-38586
NVD Published Date:
06/19/2024
NVD Last Modified:
09/17/2025
Source:
kernel.org