i40e: Fix NULL ptr dereference on VSI filter sync (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47184
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: Fix NULL ptr dereference on VSI filter sync Remove the reason of null pointer dereference in sync VSI filters. Added new I40E_VSI_RELEASING flag to signalize deleting and releasing of VSI resources to sync this thread with sync filters subtask. Without this patch it is possible to start update the VSI filter list after VSI is removed, that's causing a kernel oops.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < 78f2a9e831f9610e3655a0be5e675e1aa2472089 ; affected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < 87c421ab4a43433cb009fea44bbbc77f46913e1d ; affected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < c30162da91327e4cdf7cd03079f096bb3654738c ; affected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < f866513ead4370402428ef724b03c3312295c178 ; affected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < e91e8427a1e1633a0261e3bb0201c836ac5b3890 ; affected 41c445ff0f482bb6e6b72dcee9e598e20575f743 < 37d9e304acd903a445df8208b8a13d707902dea6
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.12 ; unaffected 0 < 3.12 ; unaffected 4.14.256 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.218 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.162 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.82 ≤ 5.10.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD