TI-2024-31256 Aliases CVE-2024-46834 GHSA-xrh8-p79x-xgf7

ethtool: fail closed if we can't get max channel used in indirection tables

LOW 34Published 2024-09-27 · Updated 2026-10-30

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: fail closed if we can't get max channel used in indirection tables Commit 0d1b7d6c9274 ("bnxt: fix crashes when reducing ring count with active RSS contexts") proves that allowing indirection table to contain channels with out of bounds IDs may lead to crashes. Currently the max channel check in the core gets skipped if driver can't fetch the indirection table or when we can't allocate memory. Both of those conditions should be extremely rare but if they do happen we should try to be safe and fail the channel change.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00293 22nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial Linux (Linux): 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.10.10 +1Red Hat: 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Linux	Linux	4.6 and later	6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.10.10, 6.11	Patch available	CNA

Linux VendorLinux Affected 4.6 and later Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.10.10, 6.11 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	before 6.10.10	Vulnerable	Linux

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 6.10.10 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.10.10, 6.11

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix

Not affected: 2 products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-46834
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xrh8-p79x-xgf7
2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@7e6ff8c58985fbe20d131112aba0a8867cdedc59 · CNA
2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@83203ec6f65680109b2048c4f3e501efc14104ba · CNA
2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA

References

Patch 2

Other 2

TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3

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Sources

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