CVE-2024-50169 (GCVE-0-2024-50169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 09:31 – Updated: 2025-10-01 20:27
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Title
vsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb() Make sure virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() and virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt() calls are balanced (i.e. virtio_vsock_sock::rx_bytes doesn't lie) after vsock_transport::read_skb(). While here, also inform the peer that we've freed up space and it has more credit. Failing to update rx_bytes after packet is dequeued leads to a warning on SOCK_STREAM recv(): [ 233.396654] rx_queue is empty, but rx_bytes is non-zero [ 233.396702] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 40601 at net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:589
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < 66cd51de31c682a311c2fa25c580b7ea45859dd9 (git)
Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < e5ca2b98090b4bb1c393088c724af6c37812a829 (git)
Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < 3543152f2d330141d9394d28855cb90b860091d2 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.59 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.6 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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