CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47631
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
ARM: davinci: da850-evm: Avoid NULL pointer dereference
With newer versions of GCC, there is a panic in da850_evm_config_emac()
when booting multi_v5_defconfig in QEMU under the palmetto-bmc machine:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020
pgd = (ptrval)
[00000020] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.15.0 #1
Hardware name: Generic DT based system
PC is at da850_evm_config_emac+0x1c/0x120
LR is at do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1e0
The emac_pdata pointer in soc_info is NULL because davinci_soc_info only
gets populated on davinci machines but da850_evm_config_emac() is called
on all machines via device_initcall().
Move the rmii_en assignment below the machine check so that it is only
dereferenced when running on a supported SoC.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.33 < 4.9.311)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.276)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.239)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.112)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.18
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0940795c6834fbe7705acc5c3d4b2f7a5f67527a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a312ec66a03133d28570f07bc52749ccfef54da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a1cde5c74bfb44b49cb2a940d044bb2380f4ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89931d4762572aaee6edbe5673d41f8082de110f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a12b356d45cbb6e8a1b718d1436b3d6239a862f3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c06f476e5b74bcabb8c4a2fba55864a37e62843b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5628533a3ece64235d04fe11ec44d2be99e423d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c64e2ed5cc376e137e572babfd2edc38b2cfb61b Patch