CVE-2024-43846 lib: objagg: Fix general protection fault
A missing check in the Linux kernel objagg library allows a general protection fault, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-43846?
CVE-2024-43846 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lib: objagg: Fix general protection fault
The library supports aggregation of objects into other objects only if the parent object does not have a parent itself. That is, nesting is not supported.
Aggregation happens in two cases: Without and with hints, where hints are a pre-computed recommendation on how to aggregate the provided objects.
Nesting is not possible in the first case due to a check that prevents it, but in the second case there is no check because the assumption is that nesting cannot happen when creating objects based on hints. The violation of this assumption leads to various warnings and eventually to a general protection fault [1].
Before fixing the root cause, error out when nesting happens and warn.
[1] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000d90: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1083 Comm: kworker/1:9 Tainted: G W 6.9.0-rc6-custom-gd9b4f1cca7fb #7 Hardware name: Mellanox Technologies Ltd. MSN3700/VMOD0005, BIOS 5.11 01/06/2019 Workqueue: mlxsw_core mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work RIP: 0010:mlxsw_sp_acl_erp_bf_insert+0x25/0x80 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> mlxsw_sp_acl_atcam_entry_add+0x256/0x3c0 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_entry_create+0x5e/0xa0 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_migrate_one+0x16b/0x270 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work+0xbe/0x510 process_one_work+0x151/0x370 worker_thread+0x2cb/0x3e0 kthread+0xd0/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43846?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-43846?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-43846 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43846 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-51387, BELL-CVE-2024-43846, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43846, GHSA-rqp9-2crf-qjg9, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43846.