CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-46928
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap
When a trap 7 (Instruction access rights) occurs, this means the CPU
couldn't execute an instruction due to missing execute permissions on
the memory region. In this case it seems the CPU didn't even fetched
the instruction from memory and thus did not store it in the cr19 (IIR)
register before calling the trap handler. So, the trap handler will find
some random old stale value in cr19.
This patch simply overwrites the stale IIR value with a constant magic
"bad food" value (0xbaadf00d), in the hope people don't start to try to
understand the various random IIR values in trap 7 dumps.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11.0 < 5.15.13)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/484730e5862f6b872dca13840bed40fd7c60fa26 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01e9ce1af6116f812491d3d3873d204f10ae0b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96373f0a5f484bc1e193f9951dcb3adf24bf3f7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/484730e5862f6b872dca13840bed40fd7c60fa26 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01e9ce1af6116f812491d3d3873d204f10ae0b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96373f0a5f484bc1e193f9951dcb3adf24bf3f7 Patch