{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2024-06-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore",
    "id" : "2293443",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293443"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-125",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore\nPrevent forced completion handling on an entry that has not yet been\nassigned an index, causing an out of bounds access on idx = -22.\nInstead of waiting indefinitely for the sem, blocking flow now waits for\nindex to be allocated or a sem acquisition timeout before beginning the\ntimer for FW completion.\nKernel log example:\nmlx5_core 0000:06:00.0: wait_func_handle_exec_timeout:1128:(pid 185911): cmd[-22]: CREATE_UCTX(0xa04) No done completion" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-10-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8162",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-10-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8162",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5364",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.79.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5365",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.79.1.rt14.364.el9_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38556\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38556\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024061952-CVE-2024-38556-8afa@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-38556",
  "csaw" : false
}