Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ethtool loopback test
CVE-2021-46916
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ethtool loopback test
The ixgbe driver currently generates a NULL pointer dereference when performing the ethtool loopback test. This is due to the fact that there isn't a q_vector associated with the test ring when it is setup as interrupts are not normally added to the test rings.
To address this I have added code that will check for a q_vector before returning a napi_id value. If a q_vector is not present it will return a value of 0.
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