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.

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4d70199e5d82da664a80077508d6c18f5e76df [No types assigned]