CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-26884

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability related to hashtab overflow on 32-bit architectures has been fixed in the Linux kernel. The issue stemmed from improper overflow checking, which could lead to undefined behavior.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to attacks exploiting this vulnerability, potentially leading to unpredictable system behavior. Specifically, an attacker could leverage this flaw to destabilize the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, systems should be monitored for potential exploits related to this issue.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix hashtab overflow check on 32-bit arches The hashtab code relies on roundup_pow_of_two() to compute the number of hash buckets, and contains an overflow check by checking if the resulting value is 0. However, on 32-bit arches, the roundup code itself can overflow by doing a 32-bit left-shift of an unsigned long value, which is undefined behaviour, so it is not guaranteed to truncate neatly. This was triggered by syzbot on the DEVMAP_HASH type, which contains the same check, copied from the hashtab code. So apply the same fix to hashtab, by moving the overflow check to before the roundup.

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