Bug 1541846 (CVE-2018-1000026)

Summary: CVE-2018-1000026 kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: airlied, ajax, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, chenwei9, dhoward, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jtoppins, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, skozina, steved, vdronov, williams
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Improper validation in the bnx2x network card driver of the Linux kernel version 4.15 can allow for denial of service (DoS) attacks via a packet with a gso_size larger than ~9700 bytes. Untrusted guest VMs can exploit this vulnerability in the host machine, causing a crash in the network card.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:39:08 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1541859, 1546744, 1546760, 1546761, 1546762, 1546763, 1740240, 1740241, 1740242    
Bug Blocks: 1541849    

Description Sam Fowler 2018-02-05 04:16:56 UTC
Improper validation in the bnx2x network card driver of the Linux kernel version 4.15 can allow for denial of service (DoS) attacks via a packet with a gso_size larger than ~9700 bytes. Untrusted guest VMs can exploit this vulnerability in the host machine, causing a crash in the network card.

References:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/859410/

https://marc.info/?t=151606867000005&r=1&w=2

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/01/16/40

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/01/18/96

Upstream commits:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8914a595110a6eca69a5e275b323f5d09e18f4f9

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2b16f048729bf35e6c28a40cbfad07239f9dcd90

Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2018-02-19 13:48:53 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546744]

Comment 6 Vladis Dronov 2018-02-19 14:46:29 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, as supported configurations are not affected.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, its real-time kernel, Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for ARM 64 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power 9 LE. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-02-23 15:33:20 UTC
kernel-4.15.4-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:31:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:37:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3096 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 08:57:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2948 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948