Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38539): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38539): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

06/19/2024

Created

08/10/2024

Added

08/09/2024

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cma: Fix kmemleak in rdma_core observed during blktests nvme/rdma use siw When running blktests nvme/rdma, the following kmemleak issue will appear. kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized (mempool available:36041) kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started kmemleak: 2 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 8 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 17 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 4 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff88855da53400 (size 192): comm "rdma", pid 10630, jiffies 4296575922 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 ff ff ff 1f 00 00 007............... 10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff 10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff.4.].....4.].... backtrace (crc 47f66721): [<ffffffff911251bd>] kmalloc_trace+0x30d/0x3b0 [<ffffffffc2640ff7>] alloc_gid_entry+0x47/0x380 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc2642206>] add_modify_gid+0x166/0x930 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc2643468>] ib_cache_update.part.0+0x6d8/0x910 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc2644e1a>] ib_cache_setup_one+0x24a/0x350 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc263949e>] ib_register_device+0x9e/0x3a0 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc2a3d389>] 0xffffffffc2a3d389 [<ffffffffc2688cd8>] nldev_newlink+0x2b8/0x520 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc2645fe3>] rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x2c3/0x520 [ib_core] [<ffffffffc264648c>] rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0.isra.0+0x23c/0x3a0 [ib_core] [<ffffffff9270e7b5>] netlink_unicast+0x445/0x710 [<ffffffff9270f1f1>] netlink_sendmsg+0x761/0xc40 [<ffffffff9249db29>] __sys_sendto+0x3a9/0x420 [<ffffffff9249dc8c>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0 [<ffffffff92db0ad3>] do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 [<ffffffff92e00126>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79 The root cause: rdma_put_gid_attr is not called when sgid_attr is set to ERR_PTR(-ENODEV).

Solution(s)

• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-gke
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1009-raspi
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-ibm
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oem
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oracle
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-oracle-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-lowlatency
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-azure
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-azure-fde
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-gcp
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-aws
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-generic
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-generic-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-lowlatency
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-40-lowlatency-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-6-8
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-6-8
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-38539
• CVE - 2024-38539
• USN-6949-1
• USN-6949-2
• USN-6952-1
• USN-6952-2
• USN-6955-1