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CVE-2024-26707 — Linux Linux Kernel security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: remove WARN_ONCE() in send_hsr_supervision_frame() Syzkaller reported [1] hitting a warning after failing to allocate resources for skb in hsr_init_skb(). Since a WARN_ONCE() call will not help much in this case, it might be prudent to switch to netdev_warn_once(). At the very least it will suppress syzkaller reports such as [1]. Just in case, use netdev_warn_once() in send_prp_supervision_frame() for similar reasons. [1] HSR: Could not send supervision frame WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 85 at net/hsr/hsr_device.c:294 send_hsr_supervision_frame+0x60a/0x810 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:294 RIP: 0010:send_hsr_supervision_frame+0x60a/0x810 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:294 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> hsr_announce+0x114/0x370 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:382 call_timer_fn+0x193/0x590 kernel/time/timer.c:1700 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1751 [inline] __run_timers+0x764/0xb20 kernel/time/timer.c:2022 run_timer_softirq+0x58/0xd0 kernel/time/timer.c:2035 __do_softirq+0x21a/0x8de kernel/softirq.c:553 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:427 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:632 [inline] irq_exit_rcu+0xb7/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:644 sysvec_apic_…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-04-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.8
  • debian / debian_linux / 10.0

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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