CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47560
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 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:
mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware
When processing port up/down events generated by the device's firmware,
the driver protects itself from events reported for non-existent local
ports, but not the CPU port (local port 0), which exists, but lacks a
netdev.
This can result in a NULL pointer dereference when calling
netif_carrier_{on,off}().
Fix this by bailing early when processing an event reported for the CPU
port. Problem was only observed when running on top of a buggy emulator.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 5.10.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.6)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4d70199e5d82da664a80077508d6c18f5e76df Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4d70199e5d82da664a80077508d6c18f5e76df Patch