CVE-2022-49776

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macvlan: enforce a consistent minimal mtu macvlan should enforce a minimal mtu of 68, even at link creation. This patch avoids the current behavior (which could lead to crashes in ipv6 stack if the link is brought up) $ ip link add macvlan1 link eno1 mtu 8 type macvlan # This should fail ! $ ip link sh dev macvlan1 5: macvlan1@eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 8 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 02:47:6c:24:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff $ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 67 Error: mtu less than device minimum. $ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 68 $ ip link set macvlan1 mtu 8 Error: mtu less than device minimum.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b055c719d8f94c15ec9b7659978133030c6a353 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b055c719d8f94c15ec9b7659978133030c6a353Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/650137a7c0b2892df2e5b0bc112d7b09a78c93c8Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a62aa84fe19eb24d083d600a074c009a0a66d4f3Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b64085b00044bdf3cd1c9825e9ef5b2e0feae91aPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2fee7d121d189c6dc905b727d60e7043a6655bbPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41cbf98df22d08402e65174d147cbb187fe1a33Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e929ec98c0c3b10d9c07f3776df0c1a02d7a763ePatch