CVE-2022-49869

Technical Description

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

bnxt_en: Fix possible crash in bnxt_hwrm_set_coal()

During the error recovery sequence, the rtnl_lock is not held for the

entire duration and some datastructures may be freed during the sequence.

Check for the BNXT_STATE_OPEN flag instead of netif_running() to ensure

that the device is fully operational before proceeding to reconfigure

the coalescing settings.

This will fix a possible crash like this:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI

CPU: 10 PID: 181276 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G IOE --------- - - 4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64 #1

Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/0F9N89, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019

RIP: 0010:bnxt_hwrm_set_coal+0x1fb/0x2a0 [bnxt_en]

Code: c2 66 83 4e 22 08 66 89 46 1c e8 10 cb 00 00 41 83 c6 01 44 39 b3 68 01 00 00 0f 8e a3 00 00 00 48 8b 93 c8 00 00 00 49 63 c6 <48> 8b 2c c2 48 8b 85 b8 02 00 00 48 85 c

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