CVE-2024-38606

Summary

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

crypto: qat - validate slices count returned by FW

The function adf_send_admin_tl_start() enables the telemetry (TL) feature on a QAT device by sending the ICP_QAT_FW_TL_START message to the firmware. This triggers the FW to start writing TL data to a DMA buffer in memory and returns an array containing the number of accelerators of each type (slices) supported by this HW. The pointer to this array is stored in the adf_tl_hw_data data structure called slice_cnt.

The array slice_cnt is then used in the function tl_print_dev_data() to report in debugfs only statistics about the supported accelerators. An incorrect value of the elements in slice_cnt might lead to an out of bounds memory read. At the moment, there isn't an implementation of FW that returns a wrong value, but for robustness validate the slice count array returned by FW.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux69e7649f7cc2aaa7889174456d39319a623c1a18 < e57ed345e2e6043629fc74aa5be051415dcc4f77affected
LinuxLinux69e7649f7cc2aaa7889174456d39319a623c1a18 < 9b284b915e2a5e63ca133353f8c456eff4446f82affected
LinuxLinux69e7649f7cc2aaa7889174456d39319a623c1a18 < 483fd65ce29317044d1d00757e3fd23503b6b04caffected
LinuxLinux6.8affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.8unaffected
LinuxLinux6.8.12 <= 6.8.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.9.3 <= 6.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.10 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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