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CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2024-50040)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212976

Synopsis

The remote CBL Mariner host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-50040 advisory.

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error Commit 004d25060c78 (igb: Fix igb_down hung on surprise removal) changed igb_io_error_detected() to ignore non-fatal pcie errors in order to avoid hung task that can happen when igb_down() is called multiple times. This caused an issue when processing transient non-fatal errors.
 igb_io_resume(), which is called after igb_io_error_detected(), assumes that device is brought down by igb_io_error_detected() if the interface is up. This resulted in panic with stacktrace below. [ T3256] igb 0000:09:00.0 haeth0: igb: haeth0 NIC Link is Down [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Uncorrected (Non- Fatal) error received: 0000:09:00.0 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non- Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Requester ID) [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: device [8086:1537] error status/mask=00004000/00000000 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: [14] CmpltTO [ 200.105524,009][ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER:
 broadcast error_detected message [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: Non-correctable non-fatal error reported. [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast mmio_enabled message [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER:
 broadcast resume message [ T292] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ T292] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6539! [ T292] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ T292] RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] Call Trace: [ T292] <TASK> [ T292] ? die+0x33/0x90 [ T292] ? do_trap+0xdc/0x110 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? do_error_trap+0x70/0xb0 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] igb_up+0x41/0x150 [ T292] igb_io_resume+0x25/0x70 [ T292] report_resume+0x54/0x70 [ T292] ? report_frozen_detected+0x20/0x20 [ T292] pci_walk_bus+0x6c/0x90 [ T292] ? aer_print_port_info+0xa0/0xa0 [ T292] pcie_do_recovery+0x22f/0x380 [ T292] aer_process_err_devices+0x110/0x160 [ T292] aer_isr+0x1c1/0x1e0 [ T292] ? disable_irq_nosync+0x10/0x10 [ T292] irq_thread_fn+0x1a/0x60 [ T292] irq_thread+0xe3/0x1a0 [ T292] ? irq_set_affinity_notifier+0x120/0x120 [ T292] ? irq_affinity_notify+0x100/0x100 [ T292] kthread+0xe2/0x110 [ T292] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 [ T292] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 [ T292] </TASK> To fix this issue igb_io_resume() checks if the interface is running and the device is not down this means igb_io_error_detected() did not bring the device down and there is no need to bring it up.
 (CVE-2024-50040)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50040

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212976

File Name: mariner_CVE-2024-50040.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/13/2024

Updated: 12/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50040

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-accessibility, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-gpu, x-cpe:/o:microsoft:cbl-mariner, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-dtb, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-docs, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:kernel-drivers-sound

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CBLMariner/release, Host/CBLMariner/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50040