https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:15:48 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-50145 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>octeon_ep: Add SKB allocation failures handling in __octep_oq_process_rx()</p> <p>build_skb() returns NULL in case of a memory allocation failure so handle it inside __octep_oq_process_rx() to avoid NULL pointer dereference.</p> <p>__octep_oq_process_rx() is called during NAPI polling by the driver. If skb allocation fails, keep on pulling packets out of the Rx DMA queue: we shouldn&#39;t break the polling immediately and thus falsely indicate to the octep_napi_poll() that the Rx pressure is going down. As there is no associated skb in this case, don&#39;t process the packets and don&#39;t push them up the network stack - they are skipped.</p> <p>Helper function is implemented to unmmap/flush all the fragment buffers used by the dropped packet. &#39;alloc_failures&#39; counter is incremented to mark the skb allocation error in driver statistics.</p> <p>Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>octeon_ep: Add SKB allocation failures handling in __octep_oq_process_rx()</p> <p>build_skb() returns NULL in case of a memory allocation failure so handle it inside __octep_oq_process_rx() to avoid NULL pointer dereference.</p> <p>__octep_oq_process_rx() is called during NAPI polling by the driver. If skb allocation fails, keep on pulling packets out of the Rx DMA queue: we shouldn&#39;t break the polling immediately and thus falsely indicate to the octep_napi_poll() that the Rx pressure is going down. As there is no associated skb in this case, don&#39;t process the packets and don&#39;t push them up the network stack - they are skipped.</p> <p>Helper function is implemented to unmmap/flush all the fragment buffers used by the dropped packet. &#39;alloc_failures&#39; counter is incremented to mark the skb allocation error in driver statistics.</p> <p>Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-50145