CVE-2021-47535

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.9-5.10.84 5.15.7-5.15.* 5.16 - Out-of-bounds Write in GMU Register Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/a6xx: Allocate enough space for GMU registers In commit 142639a52a01 ("drm/msm/a6xx: fix crashstate capture for A650") we changed a6xx_get_gmu_registers() to read 3 sets of registers. Unfortunately, we didn't change the memory allocation for the array. That leads to a KASAN warning (this was on the chromeos-5.4 kernel, which has the problematic commit backported to it): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _a6xx_get_gmu_registers+0x144/0x430 Write of size 8 at addr ffffff80c89432b0 by task A618-worker/209 CPU: 5 PID: 209 Comm: A618-worker Tainted: G W 5.4.156-lockdep #22 Hardware name: Google Lazor Limozeen without Touchscreen (rev5 - rev8) (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x248 show_stack+0x20/0x2c dump_stack+0x128/0x1ec print_address_description+0x88/0x4a0 __kasan_report+0xfc/0x120 kasan_report+0x10/0x18 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x1c/0x24 _a6xx_get_gmu_registers+0x144/0x430 a6xx_gpu_state_get+0x330/0x25d4 msm_gpu_crashstate_capture+0xa0/0x84c recover_worker+0x328/0x838 kthread_worker_fn+0x32c/0x574 kthread+0x2dc/0x39c ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 Allocated by task 209: __kasan_kmalloc+0xfc/0x1c4 kasan_kmalloc+0xc/0x14 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1f0/0x2a0 a6xx_gpu_state_get+0x164/0x25d4 msm_gpu_crashstate_capture+0xa0/0x84c recover_worker+0x328/0x838 kthread_worker_fn+0x32c/0x574 kthread+0x2dc/0x39c ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 14.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 142639a52a01e90c512a9a8d2156997e02a65b53 - 83e54fcf0b14ca2d869dd37abe1bb6542805f538
Linux/Linux 142639a52a01e90c512a9a8d2156997e02a65b53 - b4d25abf9720b69a03465b09d0d62d1998ed6708
Linux/Linux 142639a52a01e90c512a9a8d2156997e02a65b53 - d646856a600e8635ba498f20b194219b158626e8
Linux/Linux 5.10.84 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.7 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.9
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.9 - 5.10.84
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026