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CVE-2024-44964

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2024
Source publication
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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idpf: fix memory leaks and crashes while performing a soft reset

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: fix memory leaks and crashes while performing a soft reset The second tagged commit introduced a UAF, as it removed restoring q_vector->vport pointers after reinitializating the structures. This is due to that all queue allocation functions are performed here with the new temporary vport structure and those functions rewrite the backpointers to the vport. Then, this new struct is freed and the pointers start leading to nowhere. But generally speaking, the current logic is very fragile. It claims to be more reliable when the system is low on memory, but in fact, it consumes two times more memory as at the moment of running this function, there are two vports allocated with their queues and vectors. Moreover, it claims to prevent the driver from running into "bad state", but in fact, any error during the rebuild leaves the old vport in the partially allocated state. Finally, if the interface is down when the function is called, it always allocates a new queue set, but when the user decides to enable the interface later on, vport_open() allocates them once again, IOW there's a clear memory leak here. Just don't allocate a new queue set when performing a reset, that solves crashes and memory leaks. Readd the old queue number and reopen the interface on rollback - that solves limbo states when the device is left disabled and/or without HW queues enabled.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
02cbfba1add5bd9088c7d14c6b93b77a6ea8f3bbaffectedgit6b289f8d91537ec1e4f9c7b38b31b90d93b1419bUnavailableNone listed
02cbfba1add5bd9088c7d14c6b93b77a6ea8f3bbaffectedgitf01032a2ca099ec8d619aaa916c3762aa62495dfUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.7affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.7UnavailableNone listed
6.10.5unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.10.*None listed
6.11unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed