{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38557 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-38557 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-38557 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-38557 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38557 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38557/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38557/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-38557","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38557/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-38557","record":{"aliases":["AZL-48307","BELL-CVE-2024-38557","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38557","GHSA-wp7p-m23w-r9gj","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-38557","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-38557","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38557"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the mlx5 driver causes a deadlock during LAG disable/enable, leading to a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-667","name":"Improper Locking"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Reload only IB representors upon lag disable/enable\n\nOn lag disable, the bond IB device along with all of its\nrepresentors are destroyed, and then the slaves' representors get reloaded.\n\nIn case the slave IB representor load fails, the eswitch error flow\nunloads all representors, including ethernet representors, where the\nnetdevs get detached and removed from lag bond. Such flow is inaccurate\nas the lag driver is not responsible for loading/unloading ethernet\nrepresentors. Furthermore, the flow described above begins by holding\nlag lock to prevent bond changes during disable flow. However, when\nreaching the ethernet representors detachment from lag, the lag lock is\nrequired again, triggering the following deadlock:\n\nCall trace:\n__switch_to+0xf4/0x148\n__schedule+0x2c8/0x7d0\nschedule+0x50/0xe0\nschedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x28\n__mutex_lock.isra.13+0x2b8/0x570\n__mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x28\nmutex_lock+0x4c/0x68\nmlx5_lag_remove_netdev+0x3c/0x1a0 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5e_uplink_rep_disable+0x70/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5e_detach_netdev+0x6c/0xb0 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x44/0x138 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5e_netdev_attach_nic_profile+0x28/0x38 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0x184/0x1b8 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5_esw_offloads_rep_load+0xd8/0xe0 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5_eswitch_reload_reps+0x74/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5_disable_lag+0x130/0x138 [mlx5_core]\nmlx5_lag_disable_change+0x6c/0x70 [mlx5_core] // hold ldev-\u003elock\nmlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0xc0/0x410 [mlx5_core]\ndevlink_nl_cmd_eswitch_set_doit+0xdc/0x180\ngenl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.17+0xe8/0x138\ngenl_rcv_msg+0xe4/0x220\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x44/0x108\ngenl_rcv+0x40/0x58\nnetlink_unicast+0x198/0x268\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x1d4/0x418\nsock_sendmsg+0x54/0x60\n__sys_sendto+0xf4/0x120\n__arm64_sys_sendto+0x30/0x40\nel0_svc_common+0x8c/0x120\ndo_el0_svc+0x30/0xa0\nel0_svc+0x20/0x30\nel0_sync_handler+0x90/0xb8\nel0_sync+0x160/0x180\n\nThus, upon lag enable/disable, load and unload only the IB representors\nof the slaves preventing the deadlock mentioned above.\n\nWhile at it, refactor the mlx5_esw_offloads_rep_load() function to have\na static helper method for its internal logic, in symmetry with the\nrepresentor unload design.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net/mlx5: Reload only IB representors upon lag disable/enable","id":"CVE-2024-38557","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"net: openvswitch: fix overwriting ct original tuple for ICMPv6","id":"CVE-2024-38558"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore","id":"CVE-2024-38556"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-06-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the mlx5 driver causes a deadlock during LAG disable/enable, leading to a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38557/"}