CVE-2021-47501 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i40e: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc

When trying to dump VFs VSI RX/TX descriptors using debugfs there was a crash due to NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc. Added a check to i40e_dbg_dump_desc that checks if VSI type is correct for dumping RX/TX descriptors.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5b7fb2198abc50058f1a29c395b004f76ab1c83 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16431e442db248ecd8aa9457cf0a656f1885f56e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23ec111bf3549aae37140330c31a16abfc172421