CVE-2024-38544

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

19/06/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix seg fault in rxe_comp_queue_pkt In rxe_comp_queue_pkt() an incoming response packet skb is enqueued to the resp_pkts queue and then a decision is made whether to run the completer task inline or schedule it. Finally the skb is dereferenced to bump a &#39;hw&#39; performance counter. This is wrong because if the completer task is already running in a separate thread it may have already processed the skb and freed it which can cause a seg fault. This has been observed infrequently in testing at high scale. This patch fixes this by changing the order of enqueuing the packet until after the counter is accessed.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

6.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.12 (including)	5.4.285 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.227 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.168 (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-2024-38544

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools