CVE-2024-44940: fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol
First published: Mon Aug 26 2024(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fou: remove warn in gue_gro_receive on unsupported protocol Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE inn gue_gro_receive if the encapsulated type is not known or does not have a GRO handler. Such a packet is easily constructed. Syzbot generates them and sets off this warning. Remove the warning as it is expected and not actionable. The warning was previously reduced from WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in commit 270136613bf7 ("fou: Do WARN_ON_ONCE in gue_gro_receive for bad proto callbacks").
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | <6.6.47 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.7<6.10.6 | |
| debian/linux | <=5.10.223-1<=5.10.226-1 | 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3db4395332e7050ef9ddeb3052e6b5019f2a2a59
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/440ab7f97261bc28501636a13998e1b1946d2e79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a2e37bc648a2503bf6d687aed27b9f4455d82eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd89a81d850fa9a65f67b4527c0e420d15bf836c
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-44940
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-44940
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44940
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-44940
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-44940
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/dd89a81d850fa9a65f67b4527c0e420d15bf836c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1453a5616c7bd8acd90633ceba4e59105ba3b51
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