cve-2021-47560
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-24 15:12
Modified
2024-11-04 12:08
Severity ?
Summary
mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b08b1f6834bbb0b4f7783bf63b80c8c8e9a047
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d0736876c50ecde1a3275636a06b9ddb1cace9
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4d70199e5d82da664a80077508d6c18f5e76df
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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