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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2021-47556

Disclosure Date: May 24, 2024
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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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel

Additional Info

Technical Analysis