CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47439
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: microchip: Added the condition for scheduling ksz_mib_read_work
When the ksz module is installed and removed using rmmod, kernel crashes
with null pointer dereferrence error. During rmmod, ksz_switch_remove
function tries to cancel the mib_read_workqueue using
cancel_delayed_work_sync routine and unregister switch from dsa.
During dsa_unregister_switch it calls ksz_mac_link_down, which in turn
reschedules the workqueue since mib_interval is non-zero.
Due to which queue executed after mib_interval and it tries to access
dp->slave. But the slave is unregistered in the ksz_switch_remove
function. Hence kernel crashes.
To avoid this crash, before canceling the workqueue, resetted the
mib_interval to 0.
v1 -> v2:
-Removed the if condition in ksz_mib_read_work
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.14.14)
• linux linux kernel 5.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/383239a33cf29ebee9ce0d4e0e5c900b77a16148 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef1100ef20f29aec4e62abeccdb5bdbebba1e378 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2e1de075018cf71bcd7d628e9f759cb8540b0c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/383239a33cf29ebee9ce0d4e0e5c900b77a16148 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef1100ef20f29aec4e62abeccdb5bdbebba1e378 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2e1de075018cf71bcd7d628e9f759cb8540b0c3 Patch