CVE-2024-40970

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 15
NVD Status Analyzed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Avoid hw_desc array overrun in dw-axi-dmac

I have a use case where nr_buffers = 3 and in which each descriptor is composed by 3
segments, resulting in the DMA channel descs_allocated to be 9. Since axi_desc_put()
handles the hw_desc considering the descs_allocated, this scenario would result in a
kernel panic (hw_desc array will be overrun).

To fix this, the proposal is to add a new member to the axi_dma_desc structure,
where we keep the number of allocated hw_descs (axi_desc_alloc()) and use it in
axi_desc_put() to handle the hw_desc array correctly.

Additionally I propose to remove the axi_chan_start_first_queued() call after completing
the transfer, since it was identified that unbalance can occur (started descriptors can
be interrupted and transfer ignored due to DMA channel not being enabled).

Weaknesses
CWE-NVD-noinfo
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Analyzed
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-07-12 13:15:18
(2 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-09-09 18:07:59
(9 days ago)

Affected Products

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Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 5.15.162 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 5.15.162
  Linux Kernel from 5.16 version and prior 6.1.96 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 5.16 < 6.1.96
  Linux Kernel from 6.2 version and prior 6.6.36 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 6.2 < 6.6.36
  Linux Kernel from 6.7 version and prior 6.9.7 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 6.7 < 6.9.7
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