CVE-2024-57932

Technical Description

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

gve: guard XDP xmit NDO on existence of xdp queues

In GVE, dedicated XDP queues only exist when an XDP program is installed

and the interface is up. As such, the NDO XDP XMIT callback should

return early if either of these conditions are false.

In the case of no loaded XDP program, priv->num_xdp_queues=0 which can

cause a divide-by-zero error, and in the case of interface down,

num_xdp_queues remains untouched to persist XDP queue count for the next

interface up, but the TX pointer itself would be NULL.

The XDP xmit callback also needs to synchronize with a device

transitioning from open to close. This synchronization will happen via

the GVE_PRIV_FLAGS_NAPI_ENABLED bit along with a synchronize_net() call,

which waits for any RCU critical sections at call-time to complete.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References