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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50042"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T19:39:41.084Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:54:19.578Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50042"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50042.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50042"
title: "ice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF\n\nIncreasing MSI-X value on a VF leads to invalid memory operations. This\nis caused by not reallocating some arrays.\n\nReproducer:\n  modprobe ice\n  echo 0 \u003e /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_drivers_autoprobe\n  echo 1 \u003e /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_numvfs\n  echo 17 \u003e /sys/bus/pci/devices/$VF0_PCI/sriov_vf_msix_count\n\nDefault MSI-X is 16, so 17 and above triggers this issue.\n\nKASAN reports:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]\n  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8888b937d180 by task bash/28433\n  (...)\n\n  Call Trace:\n   (...)\n   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]\n   kasan_report+0xed/0x120\n   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]\n   ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]\n   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x3360/0x4770 [ice]\n   ? mutex_unlock+0x83/0xd0\n   ? __pfx_ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x10/0x10 [ice]\n   ? __pfx_ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr+0x10/0x10 [ice]\n   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]\n   ice_vf_reconfig_vsi+0x114/0x210 [ice]\n   ice_sriov_set_msix_vec_count+0x3d0/0x960 [ice]\n   sriov_vf_msix_count_store+0x21c/0x300\n   (...)\n\n  Allocated by task 28201:\n   (...)\n   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x1c8e/0x4770 [ice]\n   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]\n   ice_vsi_setup+0x179/0xa30 [ice]\n   ice_sriov_configure+0xcaa/0x1520 [ice]\n   sriov_numvfs_store+0x212/0x390\n   (...)\n\nTo fix it, use ice_vsi_rebuild() instead of ice_vf_reconfig_vsi(). This\ncauses the required arrays to be reallocated taking the new queue count\ninto account (ice_vsi_realloc_stat_arrays()). Set req_txq and req_rxq\nbefore ice_vsi_rebuild(), so that realloc uses the newly set queue\ncount.\n\nAdditionally, ice_vsi_rebuild() does not remove VSI filters\n(ice_fltr_remove_all()), so ice_vf_init_host_cfg() is no longer\nnecessary."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2a2cb4c6c18130e9f14d2e39deb75590744d98ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbda6197929418fabf0e45ecf9b7a76360944c70"},{"version":"2a2cb4c6c18130e9f14d2e39deb75590744d98ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bce9af1b030bf59d51bbabf909a3ef164787e44e"},{"version":"8910b1cef190545085e9bb486f35dd30ad928a05","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.7.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.11.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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