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Teniendo en cuenta que virtqueue_is_broken() no mira el qemu `vdev->broken`, por lo tanto, nunca se da cuenta de que el vitio est\u00e1 roto en el lado de QEMU. 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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: virtio_net: Do not send RSS key if it is not supported", "id": "2281868", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281868"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "5.5", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nvirtio_net: Do not send RSS key if it is not supported\nThere is a bug when setting the RSS options in virtio_net that can break\nthe whole machine, getting the kernel into an infinite loop.\nRunning the following command in any QEMU virtual machine with virtionet\nwill reproduce this problem:\n# ethtool -X eth0 hfunc toeplitz\nThis is how the problem happens:\n1) ethtool_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_set_rxfh()\n2) virtnet_set_rxfh() calls virtnet_commit_rss_command()\n3) virtnet_commit_rss_command() populates 4 entries for the rss\nscatter-gather\n4) Since the command above does not have a key, then the last\nscatter-gatter entry will be zeroed, since rss_key_size == 0.\nsg_buf_size = vi->rss_key_size;\n5) This buffer is passed to qemu, but qemu is not happy with a buffer\nwith zero length, and do the following in virtqueue_map_desc() (QEMU\nfunction):\nif (!sz) {\nvirtio_error(vdev, \"virtio: zero sized buffers are not allowed\");\n6) virtio_error() (also QEMU function) set the device as broken\nvdev->broken = true;\n7) Qemu bails out, and do not repond this crazy kernel.\n8) The kernel is waiting for the response to come back (function\nvirtnet_send_command())\n9) The kernel is waiting doing the following :\nwhile (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&\n!virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))\ncpu_relax();\n10) None of the following functions above is true, thus, the kernel\nloops here forever. Keeping in mind that virtqueue_is_broken() does\nnot look at the qemu `vdev->broken`, so, it never realizes that the\nvitio is broken at QEMU side.\nFix it by not sending RSS commands if the feature is not available in\nthe device."], "name": "CVE-2024-35981", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Under investigation", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Under investigation", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2024-05-20T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35981\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35981\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052026-CVE-2024-35981-2fb9@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Low"}

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