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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53229

medium Nessus Plugin ID 231071

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: RDMA/rxe: Fix the qp flush warnings in req When the qp is in error state, the status of WQEs in the queue should be set to error. Or else the following will appear. [ 920.617269] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c:756 rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.617744] Modules linked in: rnbd_client(O) rtrs_client(O) rtrs_core(O) rdma_ucm rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm crc32_generic rdma_rxe ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel ib_uverbs ib_core loop brd null_blk ipv6 [ 920.618516] CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Tainted: G O 6.1.113-storage+ #65 [ 920.618986] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 920.619396] RIP: 0010:rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.619658] Code: 0f b6 84 24 3a 02 00 00 41 89 84 24 44 04 00 00 e9 2a f7 ff ff 39 ca bb 03 00 00 00 b8 0e 00 00 00 48 0f 45 d8 e9 15 f7 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 cb f8 ff ff 41 bf f5 ff ff ff e9 08 f8 ff ff 49 8d bc 24 [ 920.620482] RSP:
 0018:ffff97b7c00bbc38 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 920.620817] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000c RCX:
 0000000000000008 [ 920.621183] RDX: ffff960dc396ebc0 RSI: 0000000000005400 RDI: ffff960dc4e2fbac [ 920.621548] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffac406450 [ 920.621884] R10:
 ffffffffac4060c0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff960dc4e2f800 [ 920.622254] R13: ffff960dc4e2f928 R14:
 ffff97b7c029c580 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 920.622609] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff960ef7d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 920.622979] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 920.623245] CR2:
 00007fa056965e90 CR3: 00000001107f1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 920.623680] Call Trace: [ 920.623815] <TASK> [ 920.623933] ? __warn+0x79/0xc0 [ 920.624116] ? rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.624356] ? report_bug+0xfb/0x150 [ 920.624594] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x60 [ 920.624796] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70 [ 920.624976] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 920.625203] ? rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.625474] ? rxe_completer+0x329/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.625749] rxe_do_task+0x80/0x110 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.626037] rxe_requester+0x625/0xde0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.626310] ? rxe_cq_post+0xe2/0x180 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.626583] ? do_complete+0x18d/0x220 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.626812] ? rxe_completer+0x1a3/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.627050] rxe_do_task+0x80/0x110 [rdma_rxe] [ 920.627285] tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xa4/0x120 [ 920.627522] handle_softirqs+0xc2/0x250 [ 920.627728] ? sort_range+0x20/0x20 [ 920.627942] run_ksoftirqd+0x1f/0x30 [ 920.628158] smpboot_thread_fn+0xc7/0x1b0 [ 920.628334] kthread+0xd6/0x100 [ 920.628504] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 920.628709] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 920.628892] </TASK> (CVE-2024-53229)

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: 231071

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_53229.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2024-53229

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53229