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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2024-45030

igb: cope with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igb: cope with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS Sabrina reports that the igb driver does not cope well with large MAX_SKB_FRAG values: setting MAX_SKB_FRAG to 45 causes payload corruption on TX. An easy reproducer is to run ssh to connect to the machine. With MAX_SKB_FRAGS=17 it works, with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45 it fails. This has been reported originally in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265320 The root cause of the issue is that the driver does not take into account properly the (possibly large) shared info size when selecting the ring layout, and will try to fit two packets inside the same 4K page even when the 1st fraglist will trump over the 2nd head. Address the issue by checking if 2K buffers are insufficient.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71 to < 8ea80ff5d8298356d28077bc30913ed37df65109affected
  • 3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71 to < b52bd8bcb9e8ff250c79b44f9af8b15cae8911abaffected
  • 3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71 to < 8aba27c4a5020abdf60149239198297f88338a8daffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.4affected
  • 0 to < 6.4unaffected
  • 6.6.48 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.10.7 to ≤ 6.10.*unaffected
  • 6.11 to ≤ *unaffected

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