Bug 2301481 (CVE-2024-42116)
| Summary: | CVE-2024-42116 kernel: igc: Linux kernel: CVE-2024-42116 is not a security vulnerability | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dfreiber, drow, jburrell, mschmidt, vkumar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel 5.15.163, kernel 6.1.98, kernel 6.6.39, kernel 6.9.9, kernel 6.10 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: |
[REJECTED CVE]
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2301781 | ||
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Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024073023-CVE-2024-42116-b420@gregkh/T Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301781] The log message just a cosmetic issue with no security impact and the patch is already known to be broken. |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igc: fix a log entry using uninitialized netdev During successful probe, igc logs this: [ 5.133667] igc 0000:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): PHC added ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The reason is that igc_ptp_init() is called very early, even before register_netdev() has been called. So the netdev_info() call works on a partially uninitialized netdev. Fix this by calling igc_ptp_init() after register_netdev(), right after the media autosense check, just as in igb. Add a comment, just as in igb. Now the log message is fine: [ 5.200987] igc 0000:01:00.0 eth0: PHC added