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National Vulnerability Database

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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-46916

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/27/2024 2:15:08 AM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ethtool loopback test

The ixgbe driver currently generates a NULL pointer dereference when
performing the ethtool loopback test. This is due to the fact that there
isn't a q_vector associated with the test ring when it is setup as
interrupts are not normally added to the test rings.

To address this I have added code that will check for a q_vector before
returning a napi_id value. If a q_vector is not present it will return a
value of 0.

								
								
					

					

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Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31166efb1cee348eb6314e9c0095d84cbeb66b9d [No types assigned]

								
								
					

					

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Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/758d19098df4b0bbca9f40d6ae6c82c9c18b9bba [No types assigned]