Bug 1227913 (CVE-2024-40999)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-40999: kernel: net: ena: add validation for completion descriptors consistency
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Kernel Bugs <kernel-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	camila.matos
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/413926/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-40999:3.6:(AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-07-16 10:57:32 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ena: Add validation for completion descriptors consistency

Validate that `first` flag is set only for the first
descriptor in multi-buffer packets.
In case of an invalid descriptor, a reset will occur.
A new reset reason for RX data corruption has been added.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-40999
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40999
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42146ee5286f16f1674a84f7c274dcca65c6ff2e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37b98a3a0c1198bafe8c2d9ce0bc845b4e7a9a7
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-40999.mbox