Linux vulnerability

What happened

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-apple: Prevent shared tags across queues on Apple A11 On Apple A11, tags of pending commands must be unique across the admin and IO queues, else the firmware crashes with "duplicate tag error for tag N", with N being the tag. Apply the existing workaround for M1 of reserving two tags for the admin queue to A11.

Affected versions

Linux: 655b6743bd900df39354e8bb6f1f2f8671fca004 through before 0dbec5e5b95ef57279433b285df7dd074085e7a0 (git); 7256eed48ce7d78ab9689d84135b77a15454de55 through before ad1be9fe255b4affcba6336ccb9145d3e6f06680 (git); 89c00b34551e2478041a485b88cf021f1c63228f through before 2c4baeb1747775d23a0c9d6e9f49e3d9417e3b6d (git); 04d8ecf37b5e06d16228a4d37d8548c17cf70461 through before 59cef6abc924a84824b0c3f563a7fe74cd5fc7a4 (git); 04d8ecf37b5e06d16228a4d37d8548c17cf70461 through before b7d9aaedf024bb6c0bb6a205848861d888eb1afa (git); 04d8ecf37b5e06d16228a4d37d8548c17cf70461 through before 6fe0687245e8406bf26143bd45eb16441bbe5280 (git); 6.1.188 through before 6.1.189 (semver); 6.6.157 through before 6.6.158 (semver); 6.12.110 through before 6.12.111 (semver); 6.18 Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.