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Privileges Required
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CVE-2021-47619

Disclosure Date: June 20, 2024 •
CVE-2021-47619 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

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

i40e: Fix queues reservation for XDP

When XDP was configured on a system with large number of CPUs
and X722 NIC there was a call trace with NULL pointer dereference.

i40e 0000:87:00.0: failed to get tracking for 256 queues for VSI 0 err -12
i40e 0000:87:00.0: setup of MAIN VSI failed

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
RIP: 0010:i40e_xdp+0xea/0x1b0 [i40e]
Call Trace:
? i40e_reconfig_rss_queues+0x130/0x130 [i40e]
dev_xdp_install+0x61/0xe0
dev_xdp_attach+0x18a/0x4c0
dev_change_xdp_fd+0x1e6/0x220
do_setlink+0x616/0x1030
? ahci_port_stop+0x80/0x80
? ata_qc_issue+0x107/0x1e0
? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
? __mod_timer+0x202/0x380
rtnl_setlink+0xe5/0x170
? bpf_lsm_binder_transaction+0x10/0x10
? security_capable+0x36/0x50
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x121/0x350
? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x100/0x100
netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0xf0
netlink_unicast+0x1d3/0x2a0
netlink_sendmsg+0x22a/0x440
sock_sendmsg+0x5e/0x60
__sys_sendto+0xf0/0x160
? __sys_getsockname+0x7e/0xc0
? _copy_from_user+0x3c/0x80
? __sys_setsockopt+0xc8/0x1a0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f83fa7a39e0

This was caused by PF queue pile fragmentation due to
flow director VSI queue being placed right after main VSI.
Because of this main VSI was not able to resize its
queue allocation for XDP resulting in no queues allocated
for main VSI when XDP was turned on.

Fix this by always allocating last queue in PF queue pile
for a flow director VSI.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
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Vulnerable Versions
Linux d46fa4ea9756
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
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PoC Author
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Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 5.17
Technical Analysis