vmxnet3: disable rx data ring on dma allocation failure

{
  "id": "4a057007d168746c4738217ee3804f7bdf5c4b871b4ea0be1a80771c5fb718b9",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40923",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "vmxnet3: disable rx data ring on dma allocation failure",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: disable rx data ring on dma allocation failure When vmxnet3_rq_create() fails to allocate memory for rq->data_ring.base, the subsequent call to vmxnet3_rq_destroy_all_rxdataring does not reset rq->data_ring.desc_size for the data ring that failed, which presumably causes the hypervisor to reference it on packet reception. To fix this bug, rq->data_ring.desc_size needs to be set to 0 to tell the hypervisor to disable this feature. [ 95.436876] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:207! [ 95.439074] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 95.440411] CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.9.3-dirty #1 [ 95.441558] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 12/12/2018 [ 95.443481] RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x4d/0x4f [ 95.444404] Code: 4f 70 50 8b 87 c0 00 00 00 50 8b 87 bc 00 00 00 50 ff b7 d0 00 00 00 4c 8b 8f c8 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 68 e8 be 9f e8 63 58 f9 ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 14 24 48 c7 c1 d0 73 65 9f e8 a1 ff ff ff 48 8b 14 24 [ 95.447684] RSP: 0018:ffffa13340274dd0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 95.448762] RAX: 0000000000000089 RBX: ffff8fbbc72b02d0 RCX: 000000000000083f [ 95.450148] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000f6 RDI: 000000000000083f [ 95.451520] RBP: 000000000000002d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa13340274c60 [ 95.452886] R10: ffffffffa04ed468 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 95.454293] R13: ffff8fbbdab3c2d0 R14: ffff8fbbdbd829e0 R15: f",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-40923",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "Kernel",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "6.6.35",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "6.9.6",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-40923",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-40923"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6f4833383e8514ea796d094e05c24889b8997fde"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9ee14af24e67ef170108db547f7d1f701b3f2bc5"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "aa116ae9d169e28b692292460aed27fc44f4a017"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ffbe335b8d471f79b259e950cb20999700670456"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-40923.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6.3.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6.6.35"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6.7.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6.9.6"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "Kernel",
            "ecosystem": "Linux"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-40923.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.046713030Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee14af24e67ef170108db547f7d1f701b3f2bc5",
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa116ae9d169e28b692292460aed27fc44f4a017",
        "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffbe335b8d471f79b259e950cb20999700670456",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40923.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40923",
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "Linux",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40923.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-40923",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 498829,
  "published_at": "2024-07-12T12:25:04.245+00:00"
}