CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47560

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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