CVE-2024-40999 (GCVE-0-2024-40999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:24
VLAI
Title
net: ena: Add validation for completion descriptors consistency
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: Add validation for completion descriptors consistency Validate that `first` flag is set only for the first descriptor in multi-buffer packets. In case of an invalid descriptor, a reset will occur. A new reset reason for RX data corruption has been added.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1738cd3ed342294360d6a74d4e58800004bff854 , < 42146ee5286f16f1674a84f7c274dcca65c6ff2e (git)
Affected: 1738cd3ed342294360d6a74d4e58800004bff854 , < b37b98a3a0c1198bafe8c2d9ce0bc845b4e7a9a7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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