ALSA-2024:8856 — Moderate: kernel security update

Affected: AlmaLinux:8: bpftool, AlmaLinux:8: kernel, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-abi-stablelists, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-core, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-cross-headers, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-debug, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-debug-core, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-debug-devel, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-debug-modules, AlmaLinux:8: kernel-debug-modules-extra and 15 more

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: net/bluetooth: race condition in conn_info_{min,max}_age_set() (CVE-2024-24857) * kernel: dmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function (CVE-2023-52492) * kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: Add protection for bmp length out of range (CVE-2024-26851) * kernel: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not free live element (CVE-2024-26924) * kernel: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: walk over current view on netlink dump (CVE-2024-27017) * kernel: KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed (CVE-2024-26976) * kernel: nouveau: lock the client object tree. (CVE-2024-27062) * kernel: netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info (CVE-2024-35839) * kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_flowtable_type_get() (CVE-2024-35898) * kernel: dma-direct: Leak pages on dma_set_decrypted() failure (CVE-2024-35939) * kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling (CVE-2024-38608) * kernel: r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. (CVE-2024-38586) * kernel: of: module: add buffer overflow check in of_modalias() (CVE-2024-38541) * kernel: bnxt_re: avoid shift undefined behavior in bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq (CVE-2024-38540) * kernel: netfilter: ipset: Fix race between namespace cleanup and gc in the list:set type (CVE-2024-39503) * kernel: drm/i915/dp…

CVE-2024-41042 — netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate

Affected: Linux

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

netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate

nft_chain_validate already performs loop detection because a cycle will result in a call stack overflow (ctx->level >= NFT_JUMP_STACK_SIZE).

It also follows maps via ->validate callback in nft_lookup, so there appears no reason to iterate the maps again.

nf_tables_check_loops() and all its helper functions can be removed. This improves ruleset load time significantly, from 23s down to 12s.

This also fixes a crash bug. Old loop detection code can result in unbounded recursion:

BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at .... Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 4 PID: 1539 Comm: nft Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5+ #1 [..]

with a suitable ruleset during validation of register stores.

I can't see any actual reason to attempt to check for this from nft_validate_register_store(), at this point the transaction is still in progress, so we don't have a full picture of the rule graph.

For nf-next it might make sense to either remove it or make this depend on table->validate_state in case we could catch an error earlier (for improved error reporting to userspace).

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ALSA-2024:8856 — Moderate: kernel security update

CVE-2024-41042 — netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate