CVE-2022-48882

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux4411a6c0abd3e55b4a4fb9432b3a0553f12337c2 < 514d9c6a39213d8200884e70f60ce7faef1ee597affected
LinuxLinux4411a6c0abd3e55b4a4fb9432b3a0553f12337c2 < 9828994ac492e8e7de47fe66097b7e665328f348affected
LinuxLinux6.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.1unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.7 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References