CVE-2024-38586

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

19/06/2024

Last modified:

17/09/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. An issue was found on the RTL8125b when transmitting small fragmented packets, whereby invalid entries were inserted into the transmit ring buffer, subsequently leading to calls to dma_unmap_single() with a null address. This was caused by rtl8169_start_xmit() not noticing changes to nr_frags which may occur when small packets are padded (to work around hardware quirks) in rtl8169_tso_csum_v2(). To fix this, postpone inspecting nr_frags until after any padding has been applied.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.7 (including)	5.10.221 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.161 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.93 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.33 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.8.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.9 (including)	6.9.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2024-38586

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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