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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-47693

medium Nessus Plugin ID 228548

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: IB/core: Fix ib_cache_setup_one error flow cleanup When ib_cache_update return an error, we exit ib_cache_setup_one instantly with no proper cleanup, even though before this we had already successfully done gid_table_setup_one, that results in the kernel WARN below. Do proper cleanup using gid_table_cleanup_one before returning the err in order to fix the issue. WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 922 at drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:806 gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 Modules linked in: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 922 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1+ #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 Code:
 44 8b 38 75 0c e8 2f cb 34 ff 4d 8b b5 28 05 00 00 e8 23 cb 34 ff 44 89 f9 89 da 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 d0 58 14 83 e8 4f de 21 ff <0f> 0b 4c 8b 75 30 e9 54 ff ff ff 48 8 3 c4 10 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 RSP:
 0018:ffffc90002b835b0 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff811c8527 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff811c8534 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff8881011b3d00 R08:
 ffff88810b3abe00 R09: 205d303839303631 R10: 666572207972746e R11: 72746e6520444947 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff888106390000 R14: ffff8881011f2110 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007fecc3b70800(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
 0000000020000340 CR3: 000000010435a001 CR4: 00000000003706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x94/0xa0 ? __warn+0x9e/0x1c0 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ? report_bug+0x1f9/0x340 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ? handle_bug+0xa2/0x110 ? exc_invalid_op+0x31/0xa0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? __warn_printk+0xc7/0x180 ? __warn_printk+0xd4/0x180 ? gid_table_release_one+0x181/0x1a0 ib_device_release+0x71/0xe0 ? __pfx_ib_device_release+0x10/0x10 device_release+0x44/0xd0 kobject_put+0x135/0x3d0 put_device+0x20/0x30 rxe_net_add+0x7d/0xa0 rxe_newlink+0xd7/0x190 nldev_newlink+0x1b0/0x2a0 ? __pfx_nldev_newlink+0x10/0x10 rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x1ad/0x2e0 rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0+0x176/0x210 netlink_unicast+0x2de/0x400 netlink_sendmsg+0x306/0x660 __sock_sendmsg+0x110/0x120 ____sys_sendmsg+0x30e/0x390
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9b/0xf0 ? kstrtouint+0x6e/0xa0 ? kstrtouint_from_user+0x7c/0xb0 ? get_pid_task+0xb0/0xd0 ? proc_fail_nth_write+0x5b/0x140 ? __fget_light+0x9a/0x200 ? preempt_count_add+0x47/0xa0
 __sys_sendmsg+0x61/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e (CVE-2024-47693)

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: 228548

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_47693.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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47693

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47693