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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 6, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

bnxt_en: Fix aggregation ID mask to prevent oops on 5760X chips

The 5760X (P7) chip's HW GRO/LRO interface is very similar to that of
the previous generation (5750X or P5). However, the aggregation ID
fields in the completion structures on P7 have been redefined from
16 bits to 12 bits. The freed up 4 bits are redefined for part of the
metadata such as the VLAN ID. The aggregation ID mask was not modified
when adding support for P7 chips. Including the extra 4 bits for the
aggregation ID can potentially cause the driver to store or fetch the
packet header of GRO/LRO packets in the wrong TPA buffer. It may hit
the BUG() condition in __skb_pull() because the SKB contains no valid
packet header:

kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2766!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.12.0-rc2+ #7
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R760/0VRV9X, BIOS 1.0.1 12/27/2022
RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans+0xda/0x140
Code: 80 00 00 00 eb c1 8b 47 70 2b 47 74 48 8b 97 d0 00 00 00 83 f8 01 7e 1b 48 85 d2 74 06 66 83 3a ff 74 09 b8 00 04 00 00 eb a5 <0f> 0b b8 00 01 00 00 eb 9c 48 85 ff 74 eb 31 f6 b9 02 00 00 00 48
RSP: 0018:ff615003803fcc28 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: 00000000000022d2 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ff2e8c25da334040
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: ff2e8c25c1ce8000 RDI: ff2e8c25869f9000
RBP: ff2e8c258c31c000 R08: ff2e8c25da334000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ff2e8c25da3342c0 R11: ff2e8c25c1ce89c0 R12: ff2e8c258e0990b0
R13: ff2e8c25bb120000 R14: ff2e8c25c1ce89c0 R15: ff2e8c25869f9000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff2e8c34be300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055f05317e4c8 CR3: 000000108bac6006 CR4: 0000000000773ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

? die+0x33/0x90
? do_trap+0xd9/0x100
? eth_type_trans+0xda/0x140
? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80
? eth_type_trans+0xda/0x140
? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70
? eth_type_trans+0xda/0x140
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? eth_type_trans+0xda/0x140
bnxt_tpa_end+0x10b/0x6b0 [bnxt_en]
? bnxt_tpa_start+0x195/0x320 [bnxt_en]
bnxt_rx_pkt+0x902/0xd90 [bnxt_en]
? __bnxt_tx_int.constprop.0+0x89/0x300 [bnxt_en]
? kmem_cache_free+0x343/0x440
? __bnxt_tx_int.constprop.0+0x24f/0x300 [bnxt_en]
__bnxt_poll_work+0x193/0x370 [bnxt_en]
bnxt_poll_p5+0x9a/0x300 [bnxt_en]
? try_to_wake_up+0x209/0x670
__napi_poll+0x29/0x1b0

Fix it by redefining the aggregation ID mask for P5_PLUS chips to be
12 bits. This will work because the maximum aggregation ID is less
than 4096 on all P5_PLUS chips.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 6, 2025

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

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56656

GHSA ID

GHSA-jm3q-3f7r-g7wc

Source code

No known source code

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