CVE-2021-47560

En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: mlxsw: espectro: protege el controlador de firmware defectuoso Al procesar eventos de activación/desactivación de puerto generados por el firmware del dispositivo, el controlador se protege de eventos informados para puertos locales inexistentes, pero no el puerto de la CPU (puerto local 0), que existe, pero carece de netdev. Esto puede resultar en una desreferencia del puntero NULL al llamar a netif_carrier_{on,off}(). Solucione este problema cancelando el proceso con antelación al procesar un evento informado para el puerto de la CPU. El problema solo se observó cuando se ejecutaba sobre un emulador con errores.

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's mlxsw spectrum driver, where processing port up/down events leads to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue occurs when the driver fails to handle events for the CPU port, which exists but lacks a corresponding network device, resulting in system crashes.

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.

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.