CVE-2021-47586

net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix oob read in rk_gmac_setup

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 24, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix oob read in rk_gmac_setup

KASAN reports an out-of-bounds read in rk_gmac_setup on the line:

while (ops->regs[i]) {

This happens for most platforms since the regs flexible array member is empty, so the memory after the ops structure is being read here. It seems that mostly this happens to contain zero anyway, so we get lucky and everything still works.

To avoid adding redundant data to nearly all the ops structures, add a new flag to indicate whether the regs field is valid and avoid this loop when it is not.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3bb3d6b1c1957e88bfc5e77a4557f7e6ba761fe3 to before 0b4a5d1e15ce72f69be48f38dc0401dab890ae0fAffected
  • 3bb3d6b1c1957e88bfc5e77a4557f7e6ba761fe3 to before 0546b224cc7717cc8a2db076b0bb069a9c430794Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.11 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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