# CVE-2021-42327: dp\_link\_settings\_write in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu\_dm/amdgpu\_dm\_debugfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.14.14 allows a heap-based

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2021-10-21 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

dp_link_settings_write in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_debugfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.14.14 allows a heap-based buffer overflow by an attacker who can write a string to the AMD GPU display drivers debug filesystem. There are no checks on size within parse_write_buffer_into_params when it uses the size of copy_from_user to copy a userspace buffer into a 40-byte heap buffer.

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_debugfs.c
- https://www.mail-archive.com/amd-gfx%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg69080.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDDEW4APTYKJK365HC2JZIVXYUV7ZRN7/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211118-0005/
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f23750b5b3d98653b31d4469592935ef6364ad67
- https://github.com/docfate111/CVE-2021-42327

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