CVE-2022-48882

Aug. 21, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

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Products

Linux kernel

Source

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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CVE-2022-48882 details

Published : Aug. 21, 2024, 7:15 a.m.
Last Modified : Aug. 21, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix macsec possible null dereference when updating MAC security entity (SecY) Upon updating MAC security entity (SecY) in hw offload path, the macsec security association (SA) initialization routine is called. In case of extended packet number (epn) is enabled the salt and ssci attributes are retrieved using the MACsec driver rx_sa context which is unavailable when updating a SecY property such as encoding-sa hence the null dereference. Fix by using the provided SA to set those attributes.

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References

URL Source
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/514d9c6a39213d8200884e70f60ce7faef1ee597 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9828994ac492e8e7de47fe66097b7e665328f348 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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