CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38205
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824
Description
drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3 makes it easier for attackers to defeat an ASLR protection mechanism because it prints a kernel pointer (i.e., the real IOMEM pointer).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.13.3)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0d62baa7f505bd4c59cd169692ff07ec49dde37 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0d62baa7f505bd4c59cd169692ff07ec49dde37 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory