CVE-2021-47276

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 2.6.28-4.4.273 - Denial of Service via Ftrace IP Address Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug() It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully) returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory address. Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted, otherwise report what was in that location.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
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-706
Status published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.28
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 0bc62e398bbd9e600959e610def5109957437b28
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 3e4ddeb68751fb4fb657199aed9cfd5d02796875
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 4aedc2bc2b32c93555f47c95610efb89cc1ec09b
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 6c14133d2d3f768e0a35128faac8aa6ed4815051
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 7e4e824b109f1d41ccf223fbb0565d877d6223a2
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 862dcc14f2803c556bdd73b43c27b023fafce2fb
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - 97524384762c1fb9b3ded931498dd2047bd0de81
Linux/Linux 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - acf671ba79c1feccc3ec7cfdcffead4efcec49e7
Linux/Linux 2.6.28
... and 10 more
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026