CVE-2021-47288
Published: May 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ngene: Fix out-of-bounds bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf() Fix an 11-year old bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf() while addressing the following warnings caught with -Warray-bounds: arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:22:16: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [12, 16] from the object at 'com' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'config' with type 'unsigned char' at offset 10 [-Warray-bounds] arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:182:25: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [12, 16] from the object at 'com' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'config' with type 'unsigned char' at offset 10 [-Warray-bounds] The problem is that the original code is trying to copy 6 bytes of data into a one-byte size member _config_ of the wrong structue FW_CONFIGURE_BUFFERS, in a single call to memcpy(). This causes a legitimate compiler warning because memcpy() overruns the length of &com.cmd.ConfigureBuffers.config. It seems that the right structure is FW_CONFIGURE_FREE_BUFFERS, instead, because it contains 6 more members apart from the header _hdr_. Also, the name of the function ngene_command_config_free_buf() suggests that the actual intention is to ConfigureFreeBuffers, instead of ConfigureBuffers (which takes place in the function ngene_command_config_buf(), above). Fix this by enclosing those 6 members of struct FW_CONFIGURE_FREE_BUFFERS into new struct config, and use &com.cmd.ConfigureFreeBuffers.config as the destination address, instead of &com.cmd.ConfigureBuffers.config, when calling memcpy(). This also helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected dae52d009fc950b5c209260d50fcc000f5becd3c - < 4487b968e5eacd02c493303dc2b61150bb7fe4b2affected dae52d009fc950b5c209260d50fcc000f5becd3c - < c6ddeb63dd543b5474b0217c4e47538b7ffd7686affected dae52d009fc950b5c209260d50fcc000f5becd3c - < e818f2ff648581a6c553ae2bebc5dcef9a8bb90caffected dae52d009fc950b5c209260d50fcc000f5becd3c - < ec731c6ef564ee6fc101fc5d73e3a3a953d09a00affected dae52d009fc950b5c209260d50fcc000f5becd3c - < e617fa62f6cf859a7b042cdd6c73af905ff8fca3+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.34unaffected 0 - < 2.6.34unaffected 4.4.277 - <= 4.4.*unaffected 4.9.277 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.241 - <= 4.14.*+5 more versions |
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