CVE-2022-49195

Technical Description

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

net: dsa: fix panic on shutdown if multi-chip tree failed to probe

DSA probing is atypical because a tree of devices must probe all at

once, so out of N switches which call dsa_tree_setup_routing_table()

during probe, for (N - 1) of them, "complete" will return false and they

will exit probing early. The Nth switch will set up the whole tree on

their behalf.

The implication is that for (N - 1) switches, the driver binds to the

device successfully, without doing anything. When the driver is bound,

the ->shutdown() method may run. But if the Nth switch has failed to

initialize the tree, there is nothing to do for the (N - 1) driver

instances, since the slave devices have not been created, etc. Moreover,

dsa_switch_shutdown() expects that the calling @ds has been in fact

initialized, so it jumps at dereferencing the various data structures,

which is incorrect.

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References