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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Feb 28, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 6, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

nvmet-rdma: Fix NULL deref when SEND is completed with error

When running some traffic and taking down the link on peer, a
retry counter exceeded error is received. This leads to
nvmet_rdma_error_comp which tried accessing the cq_context to
obtain the queue. The cq_context is no longer valid after the
fix to use shared CQ mechanism and should be obtained similar
to how it is obtained in other functions from the wc->qp.

[ 905.786331] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000e3337f90 failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12).
[ 905.832048] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048
[ 905.839919] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 905.842464] Oops: 0000 1 SMP NOPTI
[ 905.846144] CPU: 13 PID: 1557 Comm: kworker/13:1H Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 #1
[ 905.872135] RIP: 0010:nvmet_rdma_error_comp+0x5/0x1b [nvmet_rdma]
[ 905.878259] Code: 19 4f c0 e8 89 b3 a5 f6 e9 5b e0 ff ff 0f b7 75 14 4c 89 ea 48 c7 c7 08 1a 4f c0 e8 71 b3 a5 f6 e9 4b e0 ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 48 48 85 c0 74 08 48 89 c7 e9 98 bf 49 00 e9 c3 e3 ff ff
[ 905.897135] RSP: 0018:ffffab601c45fe28 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 905.902387] RAX: 0000000000000065 RBX: ffff9e729ea2f800 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 905.909558] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9e72df9567c8 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 905.916731] RBP: ffff9e729ea2b400 R08: 000000000000074d R09: 0000000000000074
[ 905.923903] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffab601c45fcc0 R12: 0000000000000010
[ 905.931074] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff9e729ea2f400
[ 905.938247] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9e72df940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 905.938249] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 905.950067] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000c7356cca failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12).
[ 905.961855] CR2: 0000000000000048 CR3: 000000678d010004 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[ 905.961855] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 905.961856] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 905.961857] PKRU: 55555554
[ 906.010315] Call Trace:
[ 906.012778] __ib_process_cq+0x89/0x170 [ib_core]
[ 906.017509] ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core]
[ 906.022152] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[ 906.026182] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[ 906.030123] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[ 906.033802] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[ 906.037744] kthread+0x116/0x130
[ 906.040988] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[ 906.045456] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 28, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 28, 2024
Last updated Dec 6, 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-2021-46983

GHSA ID

GHSA-fxr5-32j9-7wfr

Source code

No known source code

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