CVE-2021-46928

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.10.90 - Denial of Service via Stale IIR Value on Instruction Access Rights Trap

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap When a trap 7 (Instruction access rights) occurs, this means the CPU couldn't execute an instruction due to missing execute permissions on the memory region. In this case it seems the CPU didn't even fetched the instruction from memory and thus did not store it in the cr19 (IIR) register before calling the trap handler. So, the trap handler will find some random old stale value in cr19. This patch simply overwrites the stale IIR value with a constant magic "bad food" value (0xbaadf00d), in the hope people don't start to try to understand the various random IIR values in trap 7 dumps.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-755
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 484730e5862f6b872dca13840bed40fd7c60fa26
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - d01e9ce1af6116f812491d3d3873d204f10ae0b8
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - e96373f0a5f484bc1e193f9951dcb3adf24bf3f7
Linux/Linux 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 5.10.90 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.13 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
linux/linux_kernel < 5.10.90
Published Feb 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026