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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 26, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

RDMA/ipoib: Fix warning caused by destroying non-initial netns

After the commit 5ce2dced8e95 ("RDMA/ipoib: Set rtnl_link_ops for ipoib
interfaces"), if the IPoIB device is moved to non-initial netns,
destroying that netns lets the device vanish instead of moving it back to
the initial netns, This is happening because default_device_exit() skips
the interfaces due to having rtnl_link_ops set.

Steps to reporoduce:
ip netns add foo
ip link set mlx5_ib0 netns foo
ip netns delete foo

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 704 at net/core/dev.c:11435 netdev_exit+0x3f/0x50
Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT
nf_reject_ipv4 nft_compat nft_counter nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink tun d
fuse
CPU: 1 PID: 704 Comm: kworker/u64:3 Tainted: G S W 5.13.0-rc1+ #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R630/02C2CP, BIOS 2.1.5 04/11/2016
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:netdev_exit+0x3f/0x50
Code: 48 8b bb 30 01 00 00 e8 ef 81 b1 ff 48 81 fb c0 3a 54 a1 74 13 48
8b 83 90 00 00 00 48 81 c3 90 00 00 00 48 39 d8 75 02 5b c3 <0f> 0b 5b
c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 0f 1f 44 00
RSP: 0018:ffffb297079d7e08 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffff8eb542c00040 RBX: ffff8eb541333150 RCX: 000000008010000d
RDX: 000000008010000e RSI: 000000008010000d RDI: ffff8eb440042c00
RBP: ffffb297079d7e48 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff9fdeac00
R10: ffff8eb5003be000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffa1545620
R13: ffffffffa1545628 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffa1543b20
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8ed37fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005601b5f4c2e8 CR3: 0000001fc8c10002 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
ops_exit_list.isra.9+0x36/0x70
cleanup_net+0x234/0x390
process_one_work+0x1cb/0x360
? process_one_work+0x360/0x360
worker_thread+0x30/0x370
? process_one_work+0x360/0x360
kthread+0x116/0x130
? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

To avoid the above warning and later on the kernel panic that could happen
on shutdown due to a NULL pointer dereference, make sure to set the
netns_refund flag that was introduced by commit 3a5ca857079e ("can: dev:
Move device back to init netns on owning netns delete") to properly
restore the IPoIB interfaces to the initial netns.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated Dec 26, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47266

GHSA ID

GHSA-8cxw-6695-4jq3

Source code

No known source code

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