CVE-2022-49134: mlxsw: spectrum: Guard against invalid local ports

Published Feb 26, 2025
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Updated

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

mlxsw: spectrum: Guard against invalid local ports

When processing events generated by the device's firmware, the driver protects itself from events reported for non-existent local ports, but not for the CPU port (local port 0), which exists, but does not have all the fields as any local port.

This can result in a NULL pointer dereference when trying access 'struct mlxswspport' fields which are not initialized for CPU port.

Commit 63b08b1f6834 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware") already handled such issue by bailing early when processing a PUDE event reported for the CPU port.

Generalize the approach by moving the check to a common function and making use of it in all relevant places.

Affected Software

3 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel<5.17.3
Microsoft cbl2 kernel 5.15.186.1-1

Event History

Feb 26, 2025
CVE Published
via MITRE·01:55 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·01:55 AM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·07:00 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Sep 3, 2025
Data Sourced
via Microsoft·10:14 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Sep 4, 2025
Updated
via Microsoft·05:14 AM
DescriptionSeverity

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