CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47095
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-04
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi: ssif: initialize ssif_info->client early
During probe ssif_info->client is dereferenced in error path. However,
it is set when some of the error checking has already been done. This
causes following kernel crash if an error path is taken:
[ 30.645593][ T674] ipmi_ssif 0-000e: ipmi_ssif: Not probing, Interface already present
[ 30.657616][ T674] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000088
...
[ 30.657723][ T674] pc : __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0
[ 30.657732][ T674] lr : _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0
...
[ 30.657772][ T674] Call trace:
[ 30.657775][ T674] __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0
[ 30.657778][ T674] _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0
[ 30.657781][ T674] ssif_probe+0x548/0x900 [ipmi_ssif 62ce4b08badc1458fd896206d9ef69a3c31f3d3e]
[ 30.657791][ T674] i2c_device_probe+0x37c/0x3c0
...
Initialize ssif_info->client before any error path can be taken. Clear
i2c_client data in the error path to prevent the dangling pointer from
leaking.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 5.4.169)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.12)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f6ab847461ce7dd89ae9db2dd4658c993355d7c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f35f8f14bc406efc06ee4ff73202c6fd245d15 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a7311ca167aa5b7055c549a940a56e73ee5f29 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8efd6a3391f7b0b19fb0c38e50add06ca30c94af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f6ab847461ce7dd89ae9db2dd4658c993355d7c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f35f8f14bc406efc06ee4ff73202c6fd245d15 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a7311ca167aa5b7055c549a940a56e73ee5f29 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8efd6a3391f7b0b19fb0c38e50add06ca30c94af Patch