DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35981

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-35981
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35981.json
JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2024-05-20T10:15:12Z
Modified
2026-09-15T09:03:14Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_net: Do not send RSS key if it is not supported There is a bug when setting the RSS options in virtio_net that can break the whole machine, getting the kernel into an infinite loop. Running the following command in any QEMU virtual machine with virtionet will reproduce this problem: # ethtool -X eth0 hfunc toeplitz This is how the problem happens: 1) ethtool_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_set_rxfh() 2) virtnet_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_commit_rss_command() 3) virtnet_commit_rss_command() populates 4 entries for the rss scatter-gather 4) Since the command above does not have a key, then the last scatter-gatter entry will be zeroed, since rss_key_size == 0. sg_buf_size = vi->rss_key_size; 5) This buffer is passed to qemu, but qemu is not happy with a buffer with zero length, and do the following in virtqueue_map_desc() (QEMU function): if (!sz) { virtio_error(vdev, "virtio: zero sized buffers are not allowed"); 6) virtio_error() (also QEMU function) set the device as broken vdev->broken = true; 7) Qemu bails out, and do not repond this crazy kernel. 8) The kernel is waiting for the response to come back (function virtnet_send_command()) 9) The kernel is waiting doing the following : while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) && !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) cpu_relax(); 10) None of the following functions above is true, thus, the kernel loops here forever. Keeping in mind that virtqueue_is_broken() does not look at the qemu vdev->broken, so, it never realizes that the vitio is broken at QEMU side. Fix it by not sending RSS commands if the feature is not available in the device.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.90-1

Affected versions

6.*
6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35981.json"

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35981.json"

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35981.json"