Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-42161: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-42161: kernel security update

Severity

6

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:C/A:C)

Published

07/30/2024

Created

11/06/2024

Added

11/05/2024

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Avoid uninitialized value in BPF_CORE_READ_BITFIELD [Changes from V1: - Use a default branch in the switch statement to initialize `val'.] GCC warns that `val' may be used uninitialized in the BPF_CRE_READ_BITFIELD macro, defined in bpf_core_read.h as: [...] unsigned long long val; \ [...] \ switch (__CORE_RELO(s, field, BYTE_SIZE)) { \ case 1: val = *(const unsigned char *)p; break; \ case 2: val = *(const unsigned short *)p; break; \ case 4: val = *(const unsigned int *)p; break; \ case 8: val = *(const unsigned long long *)p; break; \ } \ [...] val; \ } \ This patch adds a default entry in the switch statement that sets `val' to zero in order to avoid the warning, and random values to be used in case __builtin_preserve_field_info returns unexpected values for BPF_FIELD_BYTE_SIZE. Tested in bpf-next master. No regressions.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-bpftool
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-42161
• CVE - 2024-42161
• EulerOS-SA-2024-2806