CVE-2021-47276
Published: May 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - < 0bc62e398bbd9e600959e610def5109957437b28affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - < 4aedc2bc2b32c93555f47c95610efb89cc1ec09baffected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - < acf671ba79c1feccc3ec7cfdcffead4efcec49e7affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - < 862dcc14f2803c556bdd73b43c27b023fafce2fbaffected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 - < 7e4e824b109f1d41ccf223fbb0565d877d6223a2+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.28unaffected 0 - < 2.6.28unaffected 4.4.273 - <= 4.4.*unaffected 4.9.273 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.237 - <= 4.14.*+5 more versions |
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