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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-44940): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-44940): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/26/2024
Created
10/18/2024
Added
10/17/2024
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

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").

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1136-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1157-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1167-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1174-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1182-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-230-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-230-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1137-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1138-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1175-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-260-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-260-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-hwe
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial

References

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