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GHSA-P9J8-38HJ-99W2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-07 12:30 – Updated: 2024-11-22 21:32

Details

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 09:31 – Updated: 2025-10-01 20:27

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

CWE

CWE-noinfo Not enough information

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66cd51de31c682a31…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5ca2b98090b4bb1c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3543152f2d330141d…

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Linux

Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < 66cd51de31c682a311c2fa25c580b7ea45859dd9 (git)
Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < e5ca2b98090b4bb1c393088c724af6c37812a829 (git)
Affected: 634f1a7110b439c65fd8a809171c1d2d28bcea6f , < 3543152f2d330141d9394d28855cb90b860091d2 (git)

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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GHSA-P9J8-38HJ-99W2

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

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