FKIE_CVE-2024-40990

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-12 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:47
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Add check for srq max_sge attribute max_sge attribute is passed by the user, and is inserted and used unchecked, so verify that the value doesn't exceed maximum allowed value before using it.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e692244bf7dd827dd72edc6c4a3b36ae572f03cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36ab7ada64caf08f10ee5a114d39964d1f91e81dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab99e3613139f026d2d8ba954819e2876120ab3Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7186b81c1f15e39069b1af172c6a951728ed3511Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999586418600b4b3b93c2a0edd3a4ca71ee759bfPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0deb0e9c967b61420235f7f17a4450b4b4d6ce2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e692244bf7dd827dd72edc6c4a3b36ae572f03cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36ab7ada64caf08f10ee5a114d39964d1f91e81dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab99e3613139f026d2d8ba954819e2876120ab3Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7186b81c1f15e39069b1af172c6a951728ed3511Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999586418600b4b3b93c2a0edd3a4ca71ee759bfPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0deb0e9c967b61420235f7f17a4450b4b4d6ce2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
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