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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47556

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 5/24/2024 11:15:20 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()

ethtool_set_coalesce() now uses both the .get_coalesce() and
.set_coalesce() callbacks. But the check for their availability is
buggy, so changing the coalesce settings on a device where the driver
provides only _one_ of the callbacks results in a NULL pointer
dereference instead of an -EOPNOTSUPP.

Fix the condition so that the availability of both callbacks is
ensured. This also matches the netlink code.

Note that reproducing this requires some effort - it only affects the
legacy ioctl path, and needs a specific combination of driver options:
- have .get_coalesce() and .coalesce_supported but no
 .set_coalesce(), or
- have .set_coalesce() but no .get_coalesce(). Here eg. ethtool doesn't
  cause the crash as it first attempts to call ethtool_get_coalesce()
  and bails out on error.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abfdd9e2f0f9699015d72317f74154d3e53664e6 [No types assigned]