ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47276
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug() It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully) returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory address. Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted, otherwise report what was in that location.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-706 — Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < 0bc62e398bbd9e600959e610def5109957437b28 ; affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < 4aedc2bc2b32c93555f47c95610efb89cc1ec09b ; affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < acf671ba79c1feccc3ec7cfdcffead4efcec49e7 ; affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < 862dcc14f2803c556bdd73b43c27b023fafce2fb ; affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < 7e4e824b109f1d41ccf223fbb0565d877d6223a2 ; affected 05736a427f7e16be948ccbf39782bd3a6ae16b14 < 97524384762c1fb9b3ded931498dd2047bd0de81
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.28 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.28 ; unaffected 4.4.273 ≤ 4.4.* ; unaffected 4.9.273 ≤ 4.9.* ; unaffected 4.14.237 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.195 ≤ 4.19.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD