CVE - CVE-2022-48882

CVE-ID
CVE-2022-48882	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix macsec possible null dereference when updating MAC security entity (SecY) Upon updating MAC security entity (SecY) in hw offload path, the macsec security association (SA) initialization routine is called. In case of extended packet number (epn) is enabled the salt and ssci attributes are retrieved using the MACsec driver rx_sa context which is unavailable when updating a SecY property such as encoding-sa hence the null dereference. Fix by using the provided SA to set those attributes.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/514d9c6a39213d8200884e70f60ce7faef1ee597 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/514d9c6a39213d8200884e70f60ce7faef1ee597 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9828994ac492e8e7de47fe66097b7e665328f348 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9828994ac492e8e7de47fe66097b7e665328f348
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20240716	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20240716)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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