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HistoryJun 19, 2024 - 1:37 p.m.

CVE-2024-38586 r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets.

2024-06-1913:37:41
Linux
github.com
1
linux kernel
vulnerability
rtl8125b
fragmented packets
transmit ring buffer
dma_unmap_single
rtl8169_start_xmit
rtl8169_tso_csum_v2

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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.

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial