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HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2021-47241

2024-05-2100:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
2
linux kernel
ethtool
vulnerability
message length
fix
warning
netlink
device name
skb size
strset

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ethtool: strset: fix message length calculation Outer nest for
ETHTOOL_A_STRSET_STRINGSETS is not accounted for. This may result in
ETHTOOL_MSG_STRSET_GET producing a warning like: calculated message payload
length (684) not sufficient WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 30967 at
net/ethtool/netlink.c:369 ethnl_default_doit+0x87a/0xa20 and a splat. As
usually with such warnings three conditions must be met for the warning to
trigger: - there must be no skb size rounding up (e.g. reply_size of 684);

  • string set must be per-device (so that the header gets populated); - the
    device name must be at least 12 characters long. all in all with current
    user space it looks like reading priv flags is the only place this could
    potentially happen. Or with syzbot :)

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

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