Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dpaa2-switch: preventing dereferencing of ZEROSIZEPTR when numifs is zero The driver allocates arrays for ports, FDBs, and filter blocks using kcalloc, with ethsw-swattr.numifs as the element count. When the device reports zero...

kernel: Linux kernel dpaa2-switch: Kernel memory corruption via out-of-bounds write

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel dpaa2-switch driver. This out-of-bounds write vulnerability occurs because the driver does not validate the numifs value reported by the firmware against the DPSWMAXIF limit. A highly privileged attacker, capable of influencing the DPAA2 firmware or management...