NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-zfcpdump package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELZFCPDUMP-7126212
- published 27 May 2024
- disclosed 24 May 2024
Introduced: 24 May 2024
CVE-2021-47556 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:8
kernel-zfcpdump
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump
package and not the kernel-zfcpdump
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.