Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-57932gve: guard XDP xmit NDO on existence of xdp queues

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 60.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: guard XDP xmit NDO on existence of xdp queues In GVE, dedicated XDP queues only exist when an XDP program is installed and the interface is up. As such, the NDO XDP XMIT callback should return early if either of these conditions are false. In the case of no loaded XDP program, priv->num_xdp_queues=0 which can cause a divide-by-zero error, and in the case of interface down, num_xdp_queues remains untouched to persist XDP queue count for the next interface up, but the TX pointer itself would be NULL. The XDP xmit callback also needs to synchronize with a device transitioning from open to close. This synchronization will happen via the GVE_PRIV_FLAGS_NAPI_ENABLED bit along with a synchronize_net() call, which waits for any RCU critical sections at call-time to complete.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.9-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57932
Debian:14linux6.12.9-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-60.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1029.31UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1029.31~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1029.34UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1029.34~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1016.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1030.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1025.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1012.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-60.63~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1026.26~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-60.63.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-60.63.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1028.31UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1028.31.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1028.28UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1026.27UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1026.27~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-60.63.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-62.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57932

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 39a7f4aa3e4a7947614cf1d5c27abba3300adb1e – before cbe9eb2c39d09f3c8574febcfa39d8c09d0c7cb539a7f4aa3e4a7947614cf1d5c27abba3300adb1e – before 35f44eed5828cf1bc7e760d1993ed8549ba41c7b39a7f4aa3e4a7947614cf1d5c27abba3300adb1e – before ff7c2dea9dd1a436fc79d6273adffdcc4a7ffea3
Linux Linux 6.4

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