CVE-2021-47265
MEDIUMDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA: Verify port when creating flow rule Validate port value provided by the user and with that remove no longer needed validation by the driver. The missing check in the mlx5_ib driver could cause to the below oops. Call trace: _create_flow_rule+0x2d4/0xf28 [mlx5_ib] mlx5_ib_create_flow+0x2d0/0x5b0 [mlx5_ib] ib_uverbs_ex_create_flow+0x4cc/0x624 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_handler_UVERBS_METHOD_INVOKE_WRITE+0xd4/0x150 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs.isra.7+0xb28/0xc50 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_ioctl+0x158/0x1d0 [ib_uverbs] do_vfs_ioctl+0xd0/0xaf0 ksys_ioctl+0x84/0xb4 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0xc4 el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0xa4/0x254 el0_svc_handler+0x84/0xa0 el0_svc+0x10/0x26c Code: b9401260 f9615681 51000400 8b001c20 (f9403c1a)
How to fix
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CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 10% of all known CVEs.
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