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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-47013) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-47013) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/28/2024
Created
06/07/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/06/2024

Description

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

net:emac/emac-mac: Fix a use after free in emac_mac_tx_buf_send

In emac_mac_tx_buf_send, it calls emac_tx_fill_tpd(..,skb,..).

If some error happens in emac_tx_fill_tpd(), the skb will be freed via

dev_kfree_skb(skb) in error branch of emac_tx_fill_tpd().

But the freed skb is still used via skb->len by netdev_sent_queue(,skb->len).

As i observed that emac_tx_fill_tpd() haven't modified the value of skb->len,

thus my patch assigns skb->len to 'len' before the possible free and

use 'len' instead of skb->len later.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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