CVE-2024-57890

RDMA/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow issue

Medium · published January 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow issue

In the expression "cmd.wqe_size * cmd.wr_count", both variables are u32

values that come from the user so the multiplication can lead to integer

wrapping. Then we pass the result to uverbs_request_next_ptr() which also

could potentially wrap. The "cmd.sge_count * sizeof(struct ib_uverbs_sge)"

multiplication can also overflow on 32bit systems although it's fine on

64bit systems.

This patch does two things. First, I've re-arranged the condition in

uverbs_request_next_ptr() so that the use controlled variable "len" is on

one side of the comparison by itself without any math. Then I've modified

all the callers to use size_mul() for the multiplications.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00220 · 11.9th percentile
Published
2025-01-15T13:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JAN 13:05Z
    RDMA/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow issue
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