Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi: Add limits to event and receive message requests
The driver would just fetch events and receive messages until the BMC said it was done. To avoid issues with BMCs that never say they are done, add a limit of 10 fetches at a time.
In addition, an si interface has an attn state it can return from the hardware which is supposed to cause a flag fetch to see if the driver needs to fetch events or message or a few other things. If the attn bit gets stuck, it’s a similar problem. So allow messages in between flag fetches so the driver itself doesn’t get stuck.
This is a more general fix than the previous fix for the specific bad BMC, but should fix the more general issue of a BMC that won’t stop saying it has data.
This has been there from the beginning of the driver. It’s not a bug per-se, but it is accounting for bugs in BMCs.
Details
- Affected product:
- Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-meta @ 5.4.0 (+1 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 11 | Planned | — |
| Debian 11 cloud | Planned | — |
| Debian 12 | Planned | — |
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |