CVE-2024-49973

r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Oct 21, 2024
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Oct 21, 2024

Description

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

r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125

RTL8125 added fields to the tally counter, what may result in the chip dma'ing these new fields to unallocated memory. Therefore make sure that the allocated memory area is big enough to hold all of the tally counter values, even if we use only parts of it.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 64648ae8c97ec5a3165021627f5a1658ebe081caAffected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 991e8b0bab669b7d06927c3e442b3352532e8581Affected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 21950321ad33d7613b1453f4c503d7b1871deb61Affected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before fe44b3bfbf0c74df5712f44458689d0eccccf47dAffected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 1c723d785adb711496bc64c24240f952f4faaabfAffected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 92bc8647b4d65f4d4bf8afdb206321c1bc55a486Affected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 585c048d15ed559f20cb94c8fa2f30077efa4fbcAffected f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before ced8e8b8f40accfcce4a2bbd8b150aa76d5eff9aAffected
LinuxLinux	5.4Affected before 5.4Not affected 5.4.285 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.227 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.168 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.113 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.55 through 6.6.Not affected 6.10.14 through 6.10.Not affected 6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected 6.12 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 64648ae8c97ec5a3165021627f5a1658ebe081caAffected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 991e8b0bab669b7d06927c3e442b3352532e8581Affected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 21950321ad33d7613b1453f4c503d7b1871deb61Affected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before fe44b3bfbf0c74df5712f44458689d0eccccf47dAffected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 1c723d785adb711496bc64c24240f952f4faaabfAffected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 92bc8647b4d65f4d4bf8afdb206321c1bc55a486Affected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before 585c048d15ed559f20cb94c8fa2f30077efa4fbcAffected
f1bce4ad2f1cee6759711904b9fffe4a3dd8af87 to before ced8e8b8f40accfcce4a2bbd8b150aa76d5eff9aAffected

LinuxLinux

5.4Affected
before 5.4Not affected
5.4.285 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.227 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.168 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.113 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.55 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.10.14 through 6.10.*Not affected
6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected
6.12 and laterNot affected

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