CVE-2021-47558

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.15.6 - Denial of Service via STMMAC Interface Reconfiguration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: Disable Tx queues when reconfiguring the interface The Tx queues were not disabled in situations where the driver needed to stop the interface to apply a new configuration. This could result in a kernel panic when doing any of the 3 following actions: * reconfiguring the number of queues (ethtool -L) * reconfiguring the size of the ring buffers (ethtool -G) * installing/removing an XDP program (ip l set dev ethX xdp) Prevent the panic by making sure netif_tx_disable is called when stopping an interface. Without this patch, the following kernel panic can be observed when doing any of the actions above: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80001238d040 [....] Call trace: dwmac4_set_addr+0x8/0x10 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xe4/0x1ac sch_direct_xmit+0xe8/0x39c __dev_queue_xmit+0x3ec/0xaf0 dev_queue_xmit+0x14/0x20 [...] [ end trace 0000000000000002 ]---

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 8.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 0366f7e06a6bee7eace3946a6b67fb88b828bc5c - a92f0eebb8dc008b9e8c51c6f7b8c93b27a29a43
Linux/Linux 0366f7e06a6bee7eace3946a6b67fb88b828bc5c - b270bfe697367776eca2e6759a71d700fb8d82a2
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.15.6 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.10 - 5.15.6
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026