Vulnerability CVE-2021-47005

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47005

Published: 2024-02-28

Description:

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

PCI: endpoint: Fix NULL pointer dereference for ->get_features()

get_features ops of pci_epc_ops may return NULL, causing NULL pointer
dereference in pci_epf_test_alloc_space function. Let us add a check for
pci_epc_feature pointer in pci_epf_test_bind before we access it to avoid
any such NULL pointer dereference and return -ENOTSUPP in case
pci_epc_feature is not found.

When the patch is not applied and EPC features is not implemented in the
platform driver, we see the following dump due to kernel NULL pointer
dereference.

Call trace:
pci_epf_test_bind+0xf4/0x388
pci_epf_bind+0x3c/0x80
pci_epc_epf_link+0xa8/0xcc
configfs_symlink+0x1a4/0x48c
vfs_symlink+0x104/0x184
do_symlinkat+0x80/0xd4
__arm64_sys_symlinkat+0x1c/0x24
el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0xb8/0x170
el0_svc_handler+0x70/0x88
el0_svc+0x8/0x640
Code: d2800581 b9403ab9 f9404ebb 8b394f60 (f9400400)
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References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbed83d7060e07a5d309104d25a00f0a24441428

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/679ebad058b8168f10e63876d63b0877fd2fe784

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0169d4f0bee44fdfef908c13ed21fcb326c38695

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6613bc2301ba291a1c5a90e1dc24cf3edf223c03

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