CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-47560
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4d70199e5d82da664a80077508d6c18f5e76df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9