Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26680

medium Nessus Plugin ID 227938

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: atlantic: Fix DMA mapping for PTP hwts ring Function aq_ring_hwts_rx_alloc() maps extra AQ_CFG_RXDS_DEF bytes for PTP HWTS ring but then generic aq_ring_free() does not take this into account. Create and use a specific function to free HWTS ring to fix this issue. Trace: [ 215.351607] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 215.351612] DMA-API:
atlantic 0000:4b:00.0: device driver frees DMA memory with different size [device address=0x00000000fbdd0000] [map size=34816 bytes] [unmap size=32768 bytes] [ 215.351635] WARNING: CPU: 33 PID: 10759 at kernel/dma/debug.c:988 check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360 ... [ 215.581176] Call Trace: [ 215.583632] <TASK> [ 215.585745] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df [ 215.590114] ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df [ 215.594497] ? debug_dma_free_coherent+0x196/0x210 [ 215.599305] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360 [ 215.603147] ?
__warn+0xca/0x1d0 [ 215.606391] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360 [ 215.610237] ? report_bug+0x1ef/0x370 [ 215.613921] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70 [ 215.617423] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x50 [ 215.621269] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 215.625480] ? check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360 [ 215.629331] ? mark_lock.part.0+0xca/0xa40 [ 215.633445] debug_dma_free_coherent+0x196/0x210 [ 215.638079] ?
__pfx_debug_dma_free_coherent+0x10/0x10 [ 215.643242] ? slab_free_freelist_hook+0x11d/0x1d0 [ 215.648060] dma_free_attrs+0x6d/0x130 [ 215.651834] aq_ring_free+0x193/0x290 [atlantic] [ 215.656487] aq_ptp_ring_free+0x67/0x110 [atlantic] ... [ 216.127540] ---[ end trace 6467e5964dd2640b ]--- [ 216.132160] DMA-API: Mapped at: [ 216.132162] debug_dma_alloc_coherent+0x66/0x2f0 [ 216.132165] dma_alloc_attrs+0xf5/0x1b0 [ 216.132168] aq_ring_hwts_rx_alloc+0x150/0x1f0 [atlantic] [ 216.132193] aq_ptp_ring_alloc+0x1bb/0x540 [atlantic] [ 216.132213] aq_nic_init+0x4a1/0x760 [atlantic] (CVE-2024-26680)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 227938

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_26680.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2024-26680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26680