CVE-2021-46994

2024-02-2809:15:37

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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cve-2021-46994

linux kernel

vulnerability

can

mcp251x

fix

sleep

null dereference error

error handling

nvd

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up

Since 8ce8c0abcba3 the driver queues work via priv->restart_work when
resuming after suspend, even when the interface was not previously
enabled. This causes a null dereference error as the workqueue is only
allocated and initialized in mcp251x_open().

To fix this we move the workqueue init to mcp251x_can_probe() as there
is no reason to do it later and repeat it whenever mcp251x_open() is
called.

[mkl: fix error handling in mcp251x_stop()]

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5–5.10.38

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.11.22

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.12.0–5.12.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.13.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "8ce8c0abcba3",
        "lessThan": "eecb4df8ec9f",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "8ce8c0abcba3",
        "lessThan": "6f8f1c27b577",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "8ce8c0abcba3",
        "lessThan": "e1e10a390fd9",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "8ce8c0abcba3",
        "lessThan": "03c427147b2d",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.5",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.5",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.10.38",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.11.22",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.11.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.12.5",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.12.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.13",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]