kernel: mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's mlxsw spectrum driver, where processing port up/down events leads to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue occurs when the driver fails to handle events for the CPU port, which exists but lacks a corresponding network device, resulting in system...

SUSE CVE-2024-38593

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: micrel: Fix receiving the timestamp in the frame for lan8841 The blamed commit started to use the ptp workqueue to get the second part of the timestamp. And when the port was set down, then this workqueue is stopped. But if...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47560

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware When processing port up/down events generated by the device's firmware, the driver protects itself from events reported for non-existent local ports, but not the CPU port local...

kernel: mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's mlxsw spectrum driver, where processing port up/down events leads to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue occurs when the driver fails to handle events for the CPU port, which exists but lacks a corresponding network device, resulting in system...