net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission
Queueing packets doesn't guarantee their transmission. Update TX stats
after hardware confirms consuming submitted data.
This also fixes a possible race and NULL dereference.
bcm4908_enet_start_xmit() could try to access skb after freeing it in
the bcm4908_enet_poll_tx().
Affected products
Linux · Linux