CVE-2024-40990 (GCVE-0-2024-40990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:37 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:34
VLAI
Title
RDMA/mlx5: Add check for srq max_sge attribute
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Add check for srq max_sge attribute max_sge attribute is passed by the user, and is inserted and used unchecked, so verify that the value doesn't exceed maximum allowed value before using it.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < 7186b81c1f15e39069b1af172c6a951728ed3511 (git)
Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < 1e692244bf7dd827dd72edc6c4a3b36ae572f03c (git)
Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < 999586418600b4b3b93c2a0edd3a4ca71ee759bf (git)
Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < e0deb0e9c967b61420235f7f17a4450b4b4d6ce2 (git)
Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < 4ab99e3613139f026d2d8ba954819e2876120ab3 (git)
Affected: e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c , < 36ab7ada64caf08f10ee5a114d39964d1f91e81d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.221 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.162 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.96 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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