CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-40990

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-12 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-12
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Add check for srq max_sge attribute max_sge attribute is passed by the user, and is inserted and used unchecked, so verify that the value doesn't exceed maximum allowed value before using it.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 5.10.221) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.162) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.96) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.36) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.7) • linux linux kernel 6.10

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