CVE-2021-47560

mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware

published May 24, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00222 · 12.1th percentile
Published
2024-05-24T15:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 MAY 15:12Z
    mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware
    cvelistv5