CVE-2021-47631

ARM: davinci: da850-evm: Avoid NULL pointer dereference

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

Read the record on cve.org

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.

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
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before c06f476e5b74bcabb8c4a2fba55864a37e62843bAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before a12b356d45cbb6e8a1b718d1436b3d6239a862f3Affected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before c64e2ed5cc376e137e572babfd2edc38b2cfb61bAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before 89931d4762572aaee6edbe5673d41f8082de110fAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before 0a312ec66a03133d28570f07bc52749ccfef54daAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before 0940795c6834fbe7705acc5c3d4b2f7a5f67527aAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before c5628533a3ece64235d04fe11ec44d2be99e423dAffected
  • bae105879f2f2404155da6f50b3636193d228a62 to before 83a1cde5c74bfb44b49cb2a940d044bb2380f4eaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.33Affected
  • before 2.6.33Not affected
  • 4.9.311 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.276 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.239 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.190 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.112 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.35 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.4 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.