5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
git.kernel.org/linus/0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827 (5.16-rc3)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827
git.kernel.org/stable/c/abfdd9e2f0f9699015d72317f74154d3e53664e6
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2021-47556
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47556
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47556
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47556
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%