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GHSA-FXR5-32J9-7WFR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-28 09:30 – Updated: 2024-12-06 18:30

Details

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

nvmet-rdma: Fix NULL deref when SEND is completed with error

When running some traffic and taking down the link on peer, a retry counter exceeded error is received. This leads to nvmet_rdma_error_comp which tried accessing the cq_context to obtain the queue. The cq_context is no longer valid after the fix to use shared CQ mechanism and should be obtained similar to how it is obtained in other functions from the wc->qp.

[ 905.786331] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000e3337f90 failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12). [ 905.832048] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048 [ 905.839919] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 905.842464] Oops: 0000 1 SMP NOPTI [ 905.846144] CPU: 13 PID: 1557 Comm: kworker/13:1H Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 #1 [ 905.872135] RIP: 0010:nvmet_rdma_error_comp+0x5/0x1b [nvmet_rdma] [ 905.878259] Code: 19 4f c0 e8 89 b3 a5 f6 e9 5b e0 ff ff 0f b7 75 14 4c 89 ea 48 c7 c7 08 1a 4f c0 e8 71 b3 a5 f6 e9 4b e0 ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 48 48 85 c0 74 08 48 89 c7 e9 98 bf 49 00 e9 c3 e3 ff ff [ 905.897135] RSP: 0018:ffffab601c45fe28 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 905.902387] RAX: 0000000000000065 RBX: ffff9e729ea2f800 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 905.909558] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9e72df9567c8 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 905.916731] RBP: ffff9e729ea2b400 R08: 000000000000074d R09: 0000000000000074 [ 905.923903] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffab601c45fcc0 R12: 0000000000000010 [ 905.931074] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff9e729ea2f400 [ 905.938247] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9e72df940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 905.938249] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 905.950067] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000c7356cca failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12). [ 905.961855] CR2: 0000000000000048 CR3: 000000678d010004 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 905.961855] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 905.961856] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 905.961857] PKRU: 55555554 [ 906.010315] Call Trace: [ 906.012778] __ib_process_cq+0x89/0x170 [ib_core] [ 906.017509] ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core] [ 906.022152] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 [ 906.026182] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 906.030123] worker_thread+0x30/0x390 [ 906.033802] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 906.037744] kthread+0x116/0x130 [ 906.040988] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 [ 906.045456] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

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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  "aliases": [
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CVE-2021-46983 (GCVE-0-2021-46983)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-28 08:13 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:45

Title

nvmet-rdma: Fix NULL deref when SEND is completed with error

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-rdma: Fix NULL deref when SEND is completed with error When running some traffic and taking down the link on peer, a retry counter exceeded error is received. This leads to nvmet_rdma_error_comp which tried accessing the cq_context to obtain the queue. The cq_context is no longer valid after the fix to use shared CQ mechanism and should be obtained similar to how it is obtained in other functions from the wc->qp. [ 905.786331] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000e3337f90 failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12). [ 905.832048] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048 [ 905.839919] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 905.842464] Oops: 0000 1 SMP NOPTI [ 905.846144] CPU: 13 PID: 1557 Comm: kworker/13:1H Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 #1 [ 905.872135] RIP: 0010:nvmet_rdma_error_comp+0x5/0x1b [nvmet_rdma] [ 905.878259] Code: 19 4f c0 e8 89 b3 a5 f6 e9 5b e0 ff ff 0f b7 75 14 4c 89 ea 48 c7 c7 08 1a 4f c0 e8 71 b3 a5 f6 e9 4b e0 ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 48 48 85 c0 74 08 48 89 c7 e9 98 bf 49 00 e9 c3 e3 ff ff [ 905.897135] RSP: 0018:ffffab601c45fe28 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 905.902387] RAX: 0000000000000065 RBX: ffff9e729ea2f800 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 905.909558] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9e72df9567c8 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 905.916731] RBP: ffff9e729ea2b400 R08: 000000000000074d R09: 0000000000000074 [ 905.923903] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffab601c45fcc0 R12: 0000000000000010 [ 905.931074] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff9e729ea2f400 [ 905.938247] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9e72df940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 905.938249] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 905.950067] nvmet_rdma: SEND for CQE 0x00000000c7356cca failed with status transport retry counter exceeded (12). [ 905.961855] CR2: 0000000000000048 CR3: 000000678d010004 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 905.961855] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 905.961856] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 905.961857] PKRU: 55555554 [ 906.010315] Call Trace: [ 906.012778] __ib_process_cq+0x89/0x170 [ib_core] [ 906.017509] ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core] [ 906.022152] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 [ 906.026182] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 906.030123] worker_thread+0x30/0x390 [ 906.033802] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 906.037744] kthread+0x116/0x130 [ 906.040988] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 [ 906.045456] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-28 19:05 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64f3410c7bfc389b1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17fb6dfa5162b89ec…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bdb34466ad837054…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cc365f9559b86802…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: ca0f1a8055be2a04073af435dc68419334481638 , < 64f3410c7bfc389b1a58611d0799f4a36ce4b6b5 (git) Affected: ca0f1a8055be2a04073af435dc68419334481638 , < 17fb6dfa5162b89ecfa07df891a53afec321abe8 (git) Affected: ca0f1a8055be2a04073af435dc68419334481638 , < 5bdb34466ad8370546dfa0497594fb1d6f2fed90 (git) Affected: ca0f1a8055be2a04073af435dc68419334481638 , < 8cc365f9559b86802afc0208389f5c8d46b4ad61 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.38 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.11.22 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.5 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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