net/mlx5e: Fix macsec possible null dereference when updating MAC security entity (SecY) (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-48882
MEDIUM 5.5

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · centile 11 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix macsec possible null dereference when updating MAC security entity (SecY) Upon updating MAC security entity (SecY) in hw offload path, the macsec security association (SA) initialization routine is called. In case of extended packet number (epn) is enabled the salt and ssci attributes are retrieved using the MACsec driver rx_sa context which is unavailable when updating a SecY property such as encoding-sa hence the null dereference. Fix by using the provided SA to set those attributes.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — Déréférencement de pointeur nul

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
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)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 4411a6c0abd3e55b4a4fb9432b3a0553f12337c2 < 514d9c6a39213d8200884e70f60ce7faef1ee597 ; affected 4411a6c0abd3e55b4a4fb9432b3a0553f12337c2 < 9828994ac492e8e7de47fe66097b7e665328f348
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.1 ; unaffected 0 < 6.1 ; unaffected 6.1.7 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.2 ≤ *

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