CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-36006

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the mlxsw spectrum_acl_tcam driver incorrectly used the list API by calling list_first_entry() on empty lists, causing a warning and potential issues. The fix adds a check for empty lists before processing.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can cause kernel warnings and system instability during ACL entry migration on Mellanox devices, potentially leading to network disruptions.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds empty list checks in the mlxsw spectrum_acl_tcam migration functions.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix incorrect list API usage Both the function that migrates all the chunks within a region and the function that migrates all the entries within a chunk call list_first_entry() on the respective lists without checking that the lists are not empty. This is incorrect usage of the API, which leads to the following warning [1]. Fix by returning if the lists are empty as there is nothing to migrate in this case. [1] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6437 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c:1266 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_migrate_all+0x1f1/0> Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 6437 Comm: kworker/0:37 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3-custom-00883-g94a65f079ef6 #39 Hardware name: Mellanox Technologies Ltd. MSN3700/VMOD0005, BIOS 5.11 01/06/2019 Workqueue: mlxsw_core mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work RIP: 0010:mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_migrate_all+0x1f1/0x2c0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work+0x6c/0x4a0 process_one_work+0x151/0x370 worker_thread+0x2cb/0x3e0 kthread+0xd0/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>

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