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GHSA-9HW8-MM2W-94WP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-12 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

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

net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail

In case of flow rule creation fail in mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(), instead of previously created rules, the tainted pointer is deleted deveral times. Fix this bug by using correct flow rules pointers.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-40940 (GCVE-0-2024-40940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:58

Title

net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail In case of flow rule creation fail in mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(), instead of previously created rules, the tainted pointer is deleted deveral times. Fix this bug by using correct flow rules pointers. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531eab2da27dd42d6…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d857df86837ac1c30…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a03a3fa12769e25f4…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/229bedbf62b13af5a…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 352899f384d4aefa77ede6310d08c1b515612a8f , < 531eab2da27dd42d68dfb841d82e987f4a6738b8 (git)
Affected: 352899f384d4aefa77ede6310d08c1b515612a8f , < d857df86837ac1c30592e8a068204d16feac9930 (git)
Affected: 352899f384d4aefa77ede6310d08c1b515612a8f , < a03a3fa12769e25f4385bee587afe1445aee7f7a (git)
Affected: 352899f384d4aefa77ede6310d08c1b515612a8f , < 229bedbf62b13af5aba6525ad10b62ad38d9ccb5 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.95 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.35 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.6 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2024-40940 (GCVE-0-2024-40940)

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