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HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 3:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-47276

2024-05-2115:15:00
Google
osv.dev
4
linux kernel
vulnerability
cve-2021-47276
ftrace
ip address
memory access
arm64
bug

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

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.