CVE-2021-47148 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

octeontx2-pf: fix a buffer overflow in otx2_set_rxfh_context()

This function is called from ethtool_set_rxfh() and ss_context\ncomes from the user. Add some bounds checking to prevent memory corruption.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/389146bc6d2bbb20714d06624b74856320ce40f7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5cc361e21648b75f935f9571d4003aaee480214