CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-48882

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-08-21
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: net/mlx5e: Fix macsec possible null dereference when updating MAC security entity (SecY) Upon updating MAC security entity (SecY) in hw offload path, the macsec security association (SA) initialization routine is called. In case of extended packet number (epn) is enabled the salt and ssci attributes are retrieved using the MACsec driver rx_sa context which is unavailable when updating a SecY property such as encoding-sa hence the null dereference. Fix by using the provided SA to set those attributes.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References