linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-46991: i40e: Fix use-after-free in i40e_client

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:14:41 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@...nel.org
Subject: CVE-2021-46991: i40e: Fix use-after-free in i40e_client_subtask()

From: gregkh@...nel.org

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i40e: Fix use-after-free in i40e_client_subtask()

Currently the call to i40e_client_del_instance frees the object
pf->cinst, however pf->cinst->lan_info is being accessed after
the free. Fix this by adding the missing return.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Read from pointer after free")

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46991 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 4.19.191 with commit c1322eaeb8af
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 5.4.120 with commit d718c15a2bf9
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 5.10.38 with commit 829a713450b8
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 5.11.22 with commit 4ebc10aa7cd1
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 5.12.5 with commit 1fd5d262e744
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit 7b0b1a6d0ac9 and fixed in 5.13 with commit 38318f23a7ef

Please see https://www.kernel.org or a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-46991
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1322eaeb8af0d8985b5cc5fa759140fa0e57b84
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d718c15a2bf9ae082d5ae4d177fb19ef23cb4132
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829a713450b8fb127cbabfc1244c1d8179ec5107
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ebc10aa7cd17fd9857dedac69600465c9dd16d1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd5d262e7442192ac7611ff1597a36c5b044323
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38318f23a7ef86a8b1862e5e8078c4de121960c3