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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47102

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 3/04/2024 1:15:08 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: marvell: prestera: fix incorrect structure access

In line:
	upper = info->upper_dev;
We access upper_dev field, which is related only for particular events
(e.g. event == NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER). So, this line cause invalid memory
access for another events,
when ptr is not netdev_notifier_changeupper_info.

The KASAN logs are as follows:

[   30.123165] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in prestera_netdev_port_event.constprop.0+0x68/0x538 [prestera]
[   30.133336] Read of size 8 at addr ffff80000cf772b0 by task udevd/778
[   30.139866]
[   30.141398] CPU: 0 PID: 778 Comm: udevd Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3 #6
[   30.147588] Hardware name: DNI AmazonGo1 A7040 board (DT)
[   30.153056] Call trace:
[   30.155547]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2c0
[   30.159320]  show_stack+0x18/0x30
[   30.162729]  dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
[   30.166491]  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x74/0x2b8
[   30.172346]  kasan_report+0x1e8/0x250
[   30.176102]  __asan_load8+0x98/0xe0
[   30.179682]  prestera_netdev_port_event.constprop.0+0x68/0x538 [prestera]
[   30.186847]  prestera_netdev_event_handler+0x1b4/0x1c0 [prestera]
[   30.193313]  raw_notifier_call_chain+0x74/0xa0
[   30.197860]  call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x68/0xc0
[   30.202924]  register_netdevice+0x3cc/0x760
[   30.207190]  register_netdev+0x24/0x50
[   30.211015]  prestera_device_register+0x8a0/0xba0 [prestera]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2efc2256febf214e7b2bdaa21fe6c3c3146acdcb [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c553a0cd1263e4da5f220d80fa713fc3959c1d0 [No types assigned]